I think these guys have just nailed out the correct way to get their way with the State. We have found that the louder you are, the more you get back from the states. It would be ideal for a miners group to get together and file a group of such legal documents, harrasing the BLM and FS for giving public land away. Start a movement using the exact tactics of the conservationalists and logic would dictate that you would get similar results. If that resulted in more land being re-opened, or god forbid, the moratorium on patents being lifted, well, I think that would be a battle well waged.