How long can they sit on a claim without working it? At one time, they had only so many days to start work or it was taken away from them. In Roughing It, Mark Twain has a story about him and 2 partners who had a claim. All 3 thought the others were working it but none of them were and they lost it. The story is possibly fiction but the law wasn't.
About those trees inside PVC pipes. There haven't been trees out there since Noah's flood.
That's because deer ate them as soon as they sprouted..
