Month: March 2019

Trump administration sues CA over water plan

  Turning the tables on California, the Trump administration sued Thursday to block the state’s ambitious plan to reallocate billions of gallons of river water to salmon and other struggling fish species. The lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Interior injects the Trump administration into one of the biggest California water controversies in years — […]

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Something we are considering…

Have you ever thought of walking across America for a cause?   We have milled the idea of a few of us AMRA staff walking from California to Washington DC to have a face to face meeting with the Trump administration over the problems small miners and public land users face. We are not suggesting […]

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California suction dredge update

From the President of AMRA on California suction dredging;   First of all, we would like to apologize for the length of this write up, but it is necessary.   We are pretty sure if you are like us, you’re fed up with over-regulation, dishonest politicians, state agencies delaying their duties under the law and […]

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New case on dredging being presented to the Supreme Court

We have been talking about the Bohmker case in Oregon for some time now which is being presented to the United States Supreme Court. We had the privilege of meeting Josh Bohmker and his two children this past weekend at the Fresno GPAA gold show and would like to introduce him to everyone.   Josh […]

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Idaho enviro’s produce video on suction dredging

Friends of the Clearwater have produced their version of how bad suction dredging is, even though fisheries biologists, studies and science conclusively prove the benefits of dredging to fisheries and plan to show this video to the public.  The meeting, open to the public is in Moscow Idaho on March 25th 7-9pm at the 1912 […]

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Roaring camp week winner in Arizona!

We wanted to take a minute and thank Roaring Camp for the fantastic donation of a week at their gold camp in California. We held a raffle down in Phoenix this past weekend at the GPAA gold show and announced the winner. Boy was she excited when we called her name. Thank you Kim, Mike, […]

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Supreme court to decide whether Clean Water Act regulates groundwater

From our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, in which PLF filed a friend-of-the-court brief. This case is about whether the Clean Water Act regulates pollution that reaches surface water by means of groundwater. If it does, as the Ninth Circuit Court […]

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Mining law video from Tom Kitchar, Waldo Mining District

We wanted to repost a video from our good friend Tom Kitchar from the Waldo Mining District up in Oregon. Tom is leading the fight with the Bohmker suction dredge case many of us are supporting and hopefully will be going to the United States Supreme Court. This is a great video and we encourage […]

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