by Shannon Poe | Jan 4, 2020 | Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
In continuing our informative series on the road closures in Arizona, we want to discuss RS2477. In 1866, Congress passed the original mining grant and as a part of that, RS2477 was born which required the roads in the public domain to remain open....
by Shannon Poe | Jan 3, 2020 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
As we move forward with working on stopping the road closures being proposed in Arizona by the USFS, we want to educate everyone on the legal challenges one can make on issues like this. Over the course of the next week we will be posting some of the arguments the...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 30, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Just over a year ago when we were in Arizona for the GPAA gold show we were contacted by some miners who told us the BLM was closing hundreds of thousands of acres of roads. These were roads off-roaders, miners, hikers, hunters and others used to access their public...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 25, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
To: President Donald J. Trump December 25, 2019 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington D.C. 20006 Dear President Trump, Firstly, let me thank you for your courage and tenacity in exposing the near coup which surely would have taken place had you, and I emphasize “you” not...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 23, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We received this email from our good friend Tom Kitchar. Tom has been leading the fight for dredging in Oregon for decades and because Oregon has ignored (in our opinion) federal laws for a long time, the miners are taking it to SCOTUS. Tom Kitchar, Waldo Mining...