Idaho enviro’s produce video on suction dredging

by Shannon Poe | Mar 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings

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...

Mining law video from Tom Kitchar, Waldo Mining District

by Shannon Poe | Mar 5, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

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...

Call to action: Dear President Trump

by Shannon Poe | Feb 25, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

We have penned another letter we are now sending again on a weekly basis to President Trump below. We are also including, along with the letter, a link to a webpage which lists all of the Congressmen in the country. All you have to do is enter your zip code and you...

Montana fighting back against road closures

by Shannon Poe | Feb 21, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

As many of you know by now, we get more complaints of closed roads coming out of Montana now than most other states. Most are because of the Forest Service.This is pretty remarkable and we are reaching out to Senator Jacobson tomorrow to discuss his bill which fines...

This is the definition of irony: Fishermen sue harbor for not dredging

by Shannon Poe | Nov 10, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, News & Events

Humboldt Bay Harbor is being sued by two fishing groups because they haven’t dredged it since 2006, even though they purchased a million dollar dredge for that very purpose.   Read the story here:  

Research paper on suction dredging by an AMRA member and student

by Shannon Poe | Oct 30, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events

We wanted to share a paper written by a college student and AMRA member we recently met in Sonora. Thank you Mariesa for your hard work researching and writing this paper!   Suction Gold Dredges Benefit California’s Rivers and Streams Mariesa Yeoman Southern New...