by Shannon Poe | May 28, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced the commitment of more than $106.8 million to support 47 public lands projects throughout Nevada and the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin. These projects, which encompass a broad...
by Shannon Poe | May 23, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
WOW is our reaction to this article. We’ve long suspected unelected bureaucrats were making rules which have the same weight and force as law. Thanks to PLF, here’s the proof. This is really groundbreaking. From Issue Insights: Is the U.S. government...
by Shannon Poe | May 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
This could have both positive and negative effects. The positive is perhaps President Trump will cut much of the regulation and allow the many, many miners to actually mine these minerals here in the USA. The downside is, the price for them will go up while this...
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...
