“Endangered Species” A Red Herring Tom Ellison of the Regional US Forest Service office once told senior Payette National Forest Management officials in no uncertain terms: “The law does not agree with our agenda” but it “doesn’t matter” if we can “find bloated salmon carcasses in the tread of the county road grader”. To read […]
Dredging 101 We are frequently asked about dredging and have trained a lot of people how to dredge over the years. Dredgers have their own language (not universal), and when underwater they cannot verbally communicate so we have sign language. This is “our” language and it varies from miner to miner. Here is our language: […]
We have just learned today that a miner, on his mining claim was well, cited kinda……. by a DFG LEO (Dept of Fish and Game, Law Enforcement Officer) for running a small water pump to feed his perfectly legal highbanker. A highbanker is a small box which one shovels dirt into, introduces a little water […]
We’ll let you decide…. http://usfspayettenationalforest.blogspot.com/2017/07/payette-national-forest-under_5.html For the complete article, click here: Payette NF
We are currently working on the speaking agenda and topics for our huge gold and great outdoor show in September in Auburn CA. We are considering a speaker who will explain how to file a mining claim and then maintain it, how to keep it current and the paperwork requirements. Would you be […]
The U.S. Forest Service acknowledged there isn’t much it can do about a “Rainbow Family” gathering expected to bring thousands of counter-culture types to the Malheur National Forest in Eastern Oregon over the next two weeks. The organizers don’t have a permit, and the Forest Service’s response to that has angered area residents such as […]
Once again, the EPA is covering up their ineptness in the Gold King Mine spill they created in 2015. http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/16/deluge-of-lies-epa-covers-up-the-truth-about-its-role-in-disastrous-gold-king-mine-spill/
Trump’s Interior Department Secretary, Montana rancher and former Navy Seal Ryan Zinke, is proving to be more than just a dramatic contrast to Obama’s Interior chief, liberal Democrat recreation industry exec., Sally Jewell. Zinke’s getting to work unraveling her legacy–and that of previous progressive predecessors–in short order. Beyond the Obama monument land grabs, which are currently […]
The BLM’s resource management plan and maps of the region show that two-thirds of the land inside the 1.35-million acre monument is in some sort of protected status, withdrawn from mineral development. For the full article; http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/14/bears-ears-protected-restricted-from-development-before-national-monument-proclamation/