Yreka, CA gold is here!
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digger1216
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metal detecting in yreka ca.
dont have a gold detecter but i do have an minelab explorer
dont have a gold detecter but i do have an minelab explorer
Dozer Bitch
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Where can you metal detect around Yreka? All city parks are prohibited. Thanks
Tom_in_CA
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Curious where you got this ^ ^ information .
LovestheShiny!
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@ Tom. Was in Yreka looking at an old bottle collection for sale a couple of years ago. Drove past the city part on the West part of town in an old area of town. Large signs around city park clearly stating "NO METAL DETECTING ALLOWED." Bummer, as that park sure looked juicy!
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Ok, thanx. And if that's the case , I have a sneaking suspicion why Yreka dreamed that up. And no, it's not "due to someone left holes" and no, it's not d/t "archie concerns" . Care to take a guess
Dozer Bitch
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It's posted at all the parks as well as on the city websited. Says metal detecting is prohibited.
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Yes. I sleuthed out the city website now, went down to their park's dept, and yes : It's there. And : I have a sneaking suspicion how/why it got there. Care to take a guess ?
Dozer Bitch
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My guess is the park areas is the original location of gold discovery
?LovestheShiny!
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Pick me, pick me... I know, I know!!! Nosey Nellie... Krazy Karen, or.... someone asked at city hall for permission to "dig" in the park.
Tom_in_CA
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My guess is the park areas is the original location of gold discovery
Dozer-bitch, there are scores of places in scores of cities, with loads of history. Where you will not find a muni code like that. For example, I live in the 2nd oldest European toe-hold in CA : Monterey . Second only to San Diego by one year, 1769 vs 1770. Yet there isn't any *specific* verbiage that says "no md'ing" in our parks here.
OH SURE someone can say "scram" if you're digging in nice manicured turf in front of nosey-parkers. Or if I waltzed into one of the couple of *obvious historic sensitive* monuments here. But no, there's nothing specific. Just the ancillary stuff (alter deface, cultural heritage, Lost & Found, harvest & remove etc....) that exists anywhere. (to address persons who are being a total nuisance)
So to answer your question of why some lone isolated cities ever dreamed up something specific, it is because md'rs in decades past (not you, but others), went in swatting hornet's nests . Asking "Can I ?" questions. Then their "pressing question" gets bandied around, desk to desk, till it finally gets the "safe answer" (from someone who envisioned geeks with shovels). Presto, another law or rule or "no" is born.
I started this hobby as a young teen in the mid 1970s, and saw the evolution of most every law & rule that can, yes, be traced back to this origin. NOW OF COURSE the rule might allude to "d/t cultural heritage" or "d/t holes". So the average md'r says "durned that md'r that must've left holes" or "durned those archies". But the bigger question is : WHAT PUT IT ON THEIR PLATE , TO NEED TO ADDRESS, in the first place ? So their 'holes" and "heritage" stuff is only their "go to" rationale. For if someone ever asks "but why?"
It is a giant case of : "No one cared till you asked". A giant self-fulfilling vicious loop
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Most of the other nearby cities don't have these prohibited signs up. I usually drive to an area and see if there's anything posted, then I check Parks and Rec website. At that point as long as nothing says prohibited, then I'll do a little detecting. But if it's posted on signs I just leave the detector in the truck. So at the Yreka Parks and Rec it says prohibited, then says "Contact Parks and Facilities to learn more" ..... Does anyone actually go in or call at that point? I haven't(kinda scares me). Would they even give you the blessing to do it or are they just taking names
? anywho... Just curious if anyone pursues by going in and talking (possibly educating) or just walk away when you see prohibited signs?
I guess I'm curious of other md'rs approach??
? anywho... Just curious if anyone pursues by going in and talking (possibly educating) or just walk away when you see prohibited signs? I guess I'm curious of other md'rs approach??
