Can President Trump roll back the executive actions on national monuments?

by Shannon Poe | Jan 12, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events

There is much dispute over whether or not Mr. Obama should have designated millions and millions of acres of public lands as National Monuments.  Much of this was done without the majority of public support, but based on his ideology.   Trump “Open” To...

Urgent call to action for Washington State on bill to ban suction dredging

by Shannon Poe | Jan 11, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation

Critical small mining bill proposed in Washington State Urgent action required Washington State Democrats have reintroduced yet another bill to put a moratorium (ban) on small mining (dredging) in the state. House bill 1077 would impose over-regulation on suction...

Endangered Species Act: Conservation or assault on property rights?

by Shannon Poe | Jan 6, 2017 | News & Events

Endangered Species Act: Conservation or assault on property rights? This is an excellent article explaining exactly how the enviro groups, and our own government is literally driving people from their own lands.   For the entire article,...

Obama Seized Enough Land and Water in 8 Years to Cover Texas Three Times

by Shannon Poe | Jan 5, 2017 | News & Events

Last week, in one of his final moves out of the Oval Office, Obama executively designated more than 1.5 million acres of land as national monuments, preserving their untouched façade while closing them to human expansion, development, energy use, ranching or state or...

AMRA will be attending the CA Water Board meetings

by Shannon Poe | Jan 4, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events

Several of you have asked if we are attending the CA Water Board meetings coming up. Yes, we are and have posted several times that we will be there. The first one is in Fresno on Jan 17th. WMA, Western Mining Alliance will also be there and Craig and I are on the...