by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
California protest on over-regulation, road closures and the suction dredge prohibition: Walk A Mile In Our Shoes……. Please SHARE this post. For a few months now we have been discussing holding and coordinating a significant peaceful protest in California...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 22, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Miners, this is a very, very important post. The Bohmker case in Oregon has extreme potential and ramifications if it gets to the Supreme Court. We highly encourage you to read this article (link below) written by the GPAA explaining everything you need to know...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 21, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Whatever else the restricted entry to wilderness accomplishes, access seems certain to be less equitable. And if the public can’t go and experience wilderness, the public won’t be as supportive of efforts to preserve it. For the complete article in the Bend Bulletin,...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 17, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
Hate poison oak as much as we do? Then here is a post you will want to share with anyone who goes out in the woods. Now is the time when poison oak is growing like a weed. From Washington to Southern California, poison oak makes lives miserable, and in some cases can...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 16, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
You have to love (and sometimes hate) the internet. We recently picked up a new Mine Lab Gold Monster 1000 and wanted to see it in action before we take it out tomorrow. Just so happens our good buddy Bill Southern down in Arizona is an expert on that detector (and...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 15, 2019 | All About Mining, News & Events
Our home town of Greeley Hill CA had a fire yesterday at our beloved Greeley Hill Market. The people who work here, shop here and frequent here are our friends, family and loved ones. We will support the employees of the market any way we can during this time of...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 13, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
So Idaho Conservation League, the USFS, the EPA and many others claim a tiny little plume from a tiny little suction dredge creates so much turbidity that it harms fish. These pictures were taken yesterday on the same river (South Fork Clearwater in Idaho) they claim...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Montana miner is back to work. We were contacted by a miner in Montana a few months ago. He had been denied and delayed on his Plan of Operations for 3 1/2 years by the Forest Service. AMRA stepped in, represented the miner and after one meeting with the USFS we...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 12, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Isn’t the Environmental Protection Agency supposed to be above reproach? If I’m to understand correctly, it’s not just a bloiated hive of bureaucrats soaking up public salaries. To hear liberals tell it, it’s supposedly the first line of defense for Americans who rely...
by Shannon Poe | Apr 11, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
While George Soros is known to heavily fund progressive agendas, there is another billionaire whose goal is to fund environmental causes, Hansjörg Wyss. A native of Switzerland who now lives in Wilson, Wyoming, Mr. Wyss made his fortune in medical research and his...
