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� g <br /> Reclamation Plan Map <br /> (Disturbed vs Restored) <br /> Disturbances <br /> The disturbances to the ground at the shaft site since I've owned the property have been: <br /> 1. Dead-standing lodgepole removal. <br /> 2. Removal of some country rock (shale, porphyry)from the shaft in order to protect my chainsaw blade <br /> while cutting roots. (The roots are prized by my wordworking family for their ability to be carved.) <br /> This rock was relocated to the existing rock pile (of the same rock type) northwest of the shaft. <br /> 3. Removing lodgepole stumps both inside and outside the shaft. These stumps qualify as Burl's and my <br /> family has used them in woodworking projects over the years. The stumps inside the shaft perimeter <br /> had no soil beneath them (due to erosion of hillside wash down into the shaft). The stump roots <br /> extended to as deep as 18' deep chasing water before it entered the faults. I left one root (about 12' <br /> long) in place so I'd remember how they appeared. <br /> 4. 1 dug three steps (D2) into the shaft's south porphyry wall so that I could scan that artifact rich area <br /> with a metal detector. <br /> 5. Summer of 2018, 1 dug a 33 sgft shelf(D1) into the north sloping wall in order to place posts to <br /> strengthen the north facing roof pitch of the shaft cover building. <br /> 6. About 2008, 1 dug a 20 sgft rectangle (D3) at the end of the trail so I could turn my log sled around <br /> easier. <br /> 7. The mine cover building. This building is temporary, constructed completely using T25 screws. No <br /> glue or concrete was used, and it has no permanent attachments to the ground. It is supported by five <br /> structural deadmen around the perimeter of the shaft whose offset weights are from sandbags <br /> created during my voluntary reclamation efforts detailed in#1 below. <br /> The attached map shows all the disturbances I've made since 2000 at the shaft site. None of them had <br /> anything to do with "mining". The disturbances total 62 sq.ft. <br /> Voluntary Reclamation <br /> The attached map, labeled Disturbed vs Restored, shows the 729 sgft of surface area that I've reclaimed over <br /> the years in order to improve my property and recover artifacts that I plan to some day turn into a public <br /> collection. The Bullion King was discovered in 1867 by John Shock known as the "King of Mines" in 1867 <br /> (documented), named after himself, and almost certainly first discovered during the construction of the Gold <br /> Run Ditch (about 100' down the hill) in 1862 (or earlier by ditch surveyors). The 1862 discovery date would <br /> make it the first lode discovered east of the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains and an extremely <br />