by Shannon Poe | Jan 17, 2019 | News & Events
Dredging California and permits: This may be one of the things the CA Water Board is working on and partially responsible for the delay. I finally got a call back from them yesterday and was told the NPDES permit department had their staff cut from 6 down to 2. Then...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 16, 2019 | News & Events
This is pretty telling. While publishing to the Federal Register is automatic, this particular forest is not publishing their decision. Politics? We think YES. MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The public is unable to view final updates to a northwestern Montana forest...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 14, 2019 | News & Events
Well I hope everyone is as frustrated with the CAWB (California Water Board) as we are over the supposed dredge permitting proposal they were supposed to release by now. We have sent them 11 emails, 14 phone calls and we know Jim Rankin, French Gulch Mining District...
by Shannon Poe | Jan 12, 2019 | News & Events
News from the Wilderness FrontHot off the press, courtesy of the Challis Messenger. The news story linked below was printed about a month after the December 13th meeting sponsored by the Forest Service to present their findings regarding areas under consideration for...
by Shannon Poe | Nov 15, 2018 | News & Events
Here’s a short video of some of the things we are giving away at our dinner in Merced on December 1st. Book your tickets by clicking on the dinner tab on our home screen....
by Shannon Poe | Nov 10, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, News & Events
Humboldt Bay Harbor is being sued by two fishing groups because they haven’t dredged it since 2006, even though they purchased a million dollar dredge for that very purpose. Read the story here:
by Shannon Poe | Oct 30, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events
We wanted to share a paper written by a college student and AMRA member we recently met in Sonora. Thank you Mariesa for your hard work researching and writing this paper! Suction Gold Dredges Benefit California’s Rivers and Streams Mariesa Yeoman Southern New...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 26, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Facebook, Highbanking, News & Events
BLM is at it again attempting to close your roads in Arizona. They have proposed closing well over a thousand miles of roads and ATV trails which will lock and block public land users from their lands yet again. We reported on their last attempt earlier this year...