by Shannon Poe | May 20, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
Just had to fill out extensive forms for permission {a permit} to hold a peaceful protest at the state capitol. Apparently you must ask permission to exercise your 1st Amendment right in California.
by Shannon Poe | May 19, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, News & Events
From one of our mining buddies in Idaho: South Fork Clearwater confluence with Crooked River Oh my God! Will you look at that… Just another successful project by the Be a Perce Tribe. This is the turbidity level at the mouth of Crooked River this morning where...
by Shannon Poe | May 18, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
It would appear as though this environmental group was embezzling grant money. Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday WildEarth Guardians transmitted to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Albuquerque a forensic auditor’s report which found evidence that the organization’s former...
by Shannon Poe | May 17, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Sue and Settle “ practices, sometimes referred to as “friendly lawsuits”, are cozy deals through which far-left radical environmental groups file lawsuits against federal agencies wherein court-ordered “consent decrees” are issued based upon a prearranged settlement...
by Shannon Poe | May 16, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We’ve just received a call from a small-scale miner in Montana we’ve been helping for the past few months on issues he’s had with the USFS not approving his Plan of Operations (PoO). After several years of delays and outright deceptive tactics by...
by Shannon Poe | May 13, 2019 | Current Legislation, News & Events
Some things, like this expose the agenda of the USFS like no other. BEND, Ore. – The Deschutes and Willamette national forests issued a final decision notice Friday for the Central Cascades Wilderness Strategy Project, laying out plans to issue permits to limit...
by Shannon Poe | May 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Buy some land, have water rights, then have a government agency divert your water. An Obama appointee, Judge Elaine Kaplan (below) will decide if this is the new normal. The latest clash between federal land managers and Sagebrush Rebellion-style critics played out...
by Shannon Poe | May 10, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Nature is an amazing thing. It’s beautiful and amazing to study however the human race is, unfortunately, destroying it. Luckily, there are a few good souls out there trying to protect it. One man, in particular, Hansjörg Wyss. Many people have probably never...
by Shannon Poe | May 8, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We were going to announce to the small miners tomorrow about a meeting we had scheduled with the Executive Director of the California Water Board, Eileen Sobeck. We were going to get some answers for you on the delays of the permitting program they have already said...
by Shannon Poe | May 7, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Congress has unsuccessfully tried to reform the Mining Law of 1872 several times over the years, including a near-miss in 1994. It’s high time to try again. The Mining Law President Ulysses Grant signed was the work of Bill Stewart, Nevada’s colorful “Silver Senator,”...
