by Shannon Poe | Jan 15, 2020 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
CALL TO ACTION…..ARIZONA: Are you sick of the USFS closing your access to public lands? For those in Arizona, you CAN stop the latest attempt at closing tons of roads in the Tonto NF. We’ve been talking about this closure for over a week now and have...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 11, 2020 | News & Events
We partnered with TimberUnity last year and are proud of what they have accomplished. TimberUnity has asked us to come and speak at this event (estimated numbers may well reach 10,000!) on the state capitol steps in Salem. The movement was started by one man, a log...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 4, 2020 | Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
In continuing our informative series on the road closures in Arizona, we want to discuss RS2477. In 1866, Congress passed the original mining grant and as a part of that, RS2477 was born which required the roads in the public domain to remain open....
by Shannon Poe | Jan 3, 2020 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
As we move forward with working on stopping the road closures being proposed in Arizona by the USFS, we want to educate everyone on the legal challenges one can make on issues like this. Over the course of the next week we will be posting some of the arguments the...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 30, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Just over a year ago when we were in Arizona for the GPAA gold show we were contacted by some miners who told us the BLM was closing hundreds of thousands of acres of roads. These were roads off-roaders, miners, hikers, hunters and others used to access their public...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 25, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
To: President Donald J. Trump December 25, 2019 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington D.C. 20006 Dear President Trump, Firstly, let me thank you for your courage and tenacity in exposing the near coup which surely would have taken place had you, and I emphasize “you” not...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 23, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We received this email from our good friend Tom Kitchar. Tom has been leading the fight for dredging in Oregon for decades and because Oregon has ignored (in our opinion) federal laws for a long time, the miners are taking it to SCOTUS. Tom Kitchar, Waldo Mining...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 13, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We thought we’d remind some of you, and introduce some of you to some provisions in our laws which address what options you have with over-zealous federal employees which overstep their authority and violate your rights. Say you are a mining claim owner and...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 11, 2019 | All About Mining, Highbanking, News & Events
We’d like to tell you about a man we are representing over problems with the USFS in Montana. He picked up two placer claims covering a small dry wash back in 2014 on the side of a mountain. The claims are near the top of this dry wash and rarely see water....
by Shannon Poe | Dec 10, 2019 | News & Events
Many things sound great on paper until you dig into the supporters. We are currently working a case for a man in Montana who is having problems with the USFS and we’ll talk about that tomorrow but this also popped up. It is a collaborative effort by some...
