Congressman McClintock supporting public lands

by Shannon Poe | Jan 31, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

We like to inform everyone when a politician does the right thing, which we all know is rare. We have worked with Congressman McClintock on many issues in the past, most notably, the USFS problems we have all seen and know about now involving the Taser incident and...

Important message about the USFS

by Shannon Poe | Jan 27, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

Important message regarding the USFS in California: We have been working with a leading TV news organization on a factual story regarding the USFS and all the problems we personally have encountered, or our members and supporters have encountered. Issue’s like...

Dear Presidential candidate

by Shannon Poe | Jan 15, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

7 letters we are sending today on behalf of small miners and public land users. These letters are addressed to: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.  This is not an endorsement of any one candidate, we...

WMA Newsletter – January

by Jim Hamilton | Jan 11, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

For those that have not had the opportunity to read the excellent newsletter put out by the Western Mining Alliance, we wanted to pass it along to you. The WMA does a lot of work behind the scenes such as 100’s of hours of research. To read more about them and...

What is AMRA working on this year?

by Shannon Poe | Jan 3, 2016 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Giveaways, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings

What AMRA is currently working on: We are writing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) on the USFS. We aren’t going to say which USFS office we are doing, nor are we going to outline what we are going to FOIA, we’d like that to be a surprise to them. But do...

Idaho: USFS scheme to limit suction dredging. CALL TO ACTION

by Shannon Poe | Dec 29, 2015 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events

  As you are undoubtedly aware, many management and regulatory agencies are going full speed to stop suction dredging.  The USFS is no different and has proposed a new scheme to restrict the number of dredges they will allow in Northern Idaho down to just a...