by Shannon Poe | Mar 29, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Turning the tables on California, the Trump administration sued Thursday to block the state’s ambitious plan to reallocate billions of gallons of river water to salmon and other struggling fish species. The lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Interior injects the...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 28, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Have you ever thought of walking across America for a cause? We have milled the idea of a few of us AMRA staff walking from California to Washington DC to have a face to face meeting with the Trump administration over the problems small miners and public land...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 14, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We have been talking about the Bohmker case in Oregon for some time now which is being presented to the United States Supreme Court. We had the privilege of meeting Josh Bohmker and his two children this past weekend at the Fresno GPAA gold show and would like to...
by Shannon Poe | Mar 6, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
From our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, in which PLF filed a friend-of-the-court brief. This case is about whether the Clean Water Act regulates pollution that reaches surface water...
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...
by Shannon Poe | Feb 27, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation
From Pacific Legal Foundation webpage pacificlegal.org Unelected bureaucrats hold tremendous power over us, thanks to decades of Congress delegating evermore authority subject to the vaguest of constraints. However, Congress has imposed some checks on federal...
