UNITED STATES v. RICHARDSON

No. 77-2580.

599 F.2d 290 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ned N. RICHARDSON and Dorothy M. Richardson, husband and wife, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Murray, Portland, Or., for defendants-appellants.

James W. Moorman, John H. Harmon, Asst. Attys. Gen., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WRIGHT and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges, and THOMPSON, District Judge.


BRUCE R. THOMPSON, District Judge:

Some form of poetic justice may lie in the fact that this action arose in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the State of Washington, named for a man who was in the vanguard of conservationists and environmentalists.

In 1970 the appellants, Ned and Dorothy Richardson, filed notices of location for six mining claims in the Wind River Ranger District. The claims were situated at the confluence of Slide Creek and the East...

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