RS 2477 is a dinosaur from the 19th century that may be carried forward into the 21st century unless you take action! Find out about this public-land-giveaway's roots in the antiquated mining law, and learn how a cow path becomes a highway. Check out a photo gallery of fictitious county "highways" claimed under RS 2477.

Find out how counties pressure Congress, and how efforts by the Department of the Interior to write reasonable RS 2477 regulations were derailed by Congress. Learn how some members of Congress tried to hold midwestern flood victims hostage for "pave-the-parks" RS 2477 legislation, and how the public lands barely escaped thanks to a Presidential veto.

Read statements by an unlimited-motorized-access group and a private-property-supremacist group in California, telling how they seek to use RS 2477 to undercut protection of public lands. Read a description by the Alaska state Division of Mining, Land & Water of its efforts to promote RS 2477 claims in Alaska, and learn how county governments in Utah have bladed routes across BLM and National Park Service lands without federal permission. Learn how wildlife refuges in Alaska and wilderness in Utah are threatened by RS 2477 claims, and see a summary of RS 2477 claims by state.

If you don't like what you see, then find out how volunteers in Utah have been documenting fictitious county RS 2477 claims, and why the effort is helping. You too can help, by writing letters to the editor of your newspaper and letting your members of Congress know that you want them to stop RS 2477 abuse.

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