by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
California protest on over-regulation, road closures and the suction dredge prohibition: Walk A Mile In Our Shoes……. Please SHARE this post. For a few months now we have been discussing holding and coordinating a significant peaceful protest in California...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Miners, this is a very, very important post. The Bohmker case in Oregon has extreme potential and ramifications if it gets to the Supreme Court. We highly encourage you to read this article (link below) written by the GPAA explaining everything you need to know...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 21, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Whatever else the restricted entry to wilderness accomplishes, access seems certain to be less equitable. And if the public can’t go and experience wilderness, the public won’t be as supportive of efforts to preserve it. For the complete article in the Bend Bulletin,...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 13, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
So Idaho Conservation League, the USFS, the EPA and many others claim a tiny little plume from a tiny little suction dredge creates so much turbidity that it harms fish. These pictures were taken yesterday on the same river (South Fork Clearwater in Idaho) they claim...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Isn’t the Environmental Protection Agency supposed to be above reproach? If I’m to understand correctly, it’s not just a bloiated hive of bureaucrats soaking up public salaries. To hear liberals tell it, it’s supposedly the first line of defense for Americans who rely...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 11, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
A judge who previously banned a charter school from using the Bible and who acquitted the sniper who killed three people at Ruby Ridge in 1992 has agreed to allow the Environmental Protection Agency essentially to take a half-acre of private land from an Idaho couple....