Wyoming mining and GPAA claims under attack

by Shannon Poe | Aug 1, 2013 | Current Legislation, News & Events

From our friends at GPAA, for further topics and articles, visit GPAA at: http://www.goldprospectors.org/   Sage Grouse ruffles feathers Land grab could affect prospecting in Wyoming By SARAH REIJONEN For the GPAA The Bureau of Land Management Office out of...

AMRA’s formal letter to DFG on the Yellow-legged Frog and Yosemite Toad

by Shannon Poe | Jul 31, 2013 | Current Legislation, News & Events

    Public Comments Processing Attn: FWS-R8-ES-2012-0100 & FWS-R8-ES-2012-0074 Division of Policy and Directives Management US Fish and Wildlife Service 4401 N Fairfax Drive, MS 2042-PDM Arlington, VA 22203 Re: Comment on proposed listing of Frog &...

Fish and Game and the method to take private property

by Shannon Poe | Jul 30, 2013 | Current Legislation, News & Events

    This is scary.  Our Constitution provides for the protection of private property, but as we know, there are entities out there which do not respect our Constitution, nor do they want us to have our own private property.  This is something every land...

Oregon’s Chetco River and the false narrative

by Shannon Poe | Jul 27, 2013 | Current Legislation, News & Events

We stumbled upon this article about the Chetco this morning and while it is a pretty standard article about how they are enacting a 5 year ban on dredging in the Chetco, what drew our attention to it is the comments at the bottom.  False narratives posted by...

If you want the FACTS on if small scale dredging harms the environment, READ THIS

by Shannon Poe | Jul 21, 2013 | Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events

This is probably the best scientific finding we have found on the impacts of suction dredging.  The claims environmentalists have that suction dredging stirs up mercury, that they use harmful chemicals, that they destroy salmon habitat and the litany of other false...