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Zinke’s Interior upends Obama era anti-domestic energy policies

“Our public lands are meant to be managed for the benefit of the people,” said Zinke in the statement announcing the DOI reports release. “That means a multiple-use approach where appropriate and making sure that multiple-use includes energy development under reasonable regulations.” This is true, and the Trump Administration is returning America to a level […]

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Big fight in Nevada over closed roads and using the 1866 mining act

This article by our good friends at Free Range Report is one we will be following intensely over the course of this litigation.   We talk all the time about road closures by USFS, BLM and how environmental groups sue, fight, protest and influence the decisions to close your lands.   This case, while not […]

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Josephine County Commissioners declare a vote of no confidence with USFS

Josephine County Board of Commissioners declare no-confidence resolution with U.S. Forest Service Josephine County Board of Commissioners declare no-confidence resolution with U.S. Forest Service Grants Pass, Or.- Josephine County Commissioners have declared a “no confidence” resolution in the current federal forest management policy. “The U.S. Forest Service’s fire policy is resulting in catastrophic fires,” Josephine […]

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Forest fires and the USFS

Well, can’t say we disagree with this. Just in the past 4 1/2 years we have had to endure two massive fires in our own backyard. One was the 5th largest in the history of California. The latest one came within a mile and a quarter of our home base. Mismanagement of our forests has […]

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Ryan Zinke proposes moving agencies out west

Our thoughts on Interior Secretary Zinke moving the departments/agencies tasked with managing our public lands out of Washington DC is pretty simple. We’d rather have these folks be available to the folks affected by their management and be in the heart of the lands they manage………..rather than be at the doorstep of the lobbyists and […]

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Feldman brothers get a new TV show!

Our friends, the Feldman brothers have a new TV series pilot which is going to air on November 30th. Most will remember the brothers as mining on the show “Ice Cold Gold”. This is pretty exciting as the new show is filmed in the desert Southwest (they are from Arizona) and will be in areas […]

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Trump rolls back restrictions on accessing public lands

As most of you can imagine, we get a ton of emails and calls on new bills, laws and movements by enviro groups to further take away the public lands from you…..who owns the lands. Right now there are attacks in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California to further restrict either access to these lands, or […]

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Senate swamp creatures obstruct mining

Many of you know we write a ton of letters to our politicians and Federal agencies. Some to encourage them to open investigations on bad behavior by government agencies, some to lawmakers we are at odds with like this….. Again, we are not Republicans or Democrats and we call out both parties when they obstruct. […]

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Government ignored Native Americans on National Monument issues

During the Obama Administration, environmental groups lobbied endlessly to have millions of acres of your public lands designated as “National Monuments”. Part of their claims were that Native Americans wanted this. Well, not so much……   http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/11/08/utah-navajos-say-monument-designations-not-needed-to-protect-sites/ Or for the complete article, click

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Outstanding article on Hydrothermal gold deposits

Want to understand how gold gets deposited and why people lode mine?  Read this………… https://www.geologyin.com/2014/11/veins-and-hydrothermal-deposits.html?utm_content=bufferad04b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#K2RQDkRBbff1XPtH.99 Or click Veins and hydrothermal deposits of gold

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