by Shannon Poe | Aug 28, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Since we have returned from our trip to Idaho we have received an overwhelming number of calls from miners and public land users all across the west with documented problems with the USFS. Problems like ignoring Plans of Operation applications, in some cases for...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 23, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Update on dredging in California: Yesterday we met with the California Water Board (CAWB) in Sacramento over the permitting of suction dredging for 2019 along with several other mining organizations here in CA. This is the second meeting in the past 3 weeks and...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 17, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We have read on the internet that Idaho Conservation League has filed a lawsuit against AMRA President Shannon Poe for suction dredging on the SF Clearwater. ICL is well known for suing and settling lawsuits, especially with the USFS. We have not seen any documents so...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 11, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events
Update from the SF Clearwater, Idaho Last night two of the AMRA dredgers were cited for dredging without a PoO (Plan of Operations) by the Forest Service. Now, we will be able to present this case, along with the mountain of evidence we have obtained including...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 8, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Update from the SF Clearwater, Idaho And an update about dredging in California in 2019 We had a meeting with Idaho Dept of Water Resources yesterday in Boise over our notices that we were out of compliance (remember, these are not Cheryl Probert and the USFS) and...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 3, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Update: Yes folks, we are aware of the article out of Spokane which appears to be distributed by the Lewiston far left media. Our thoughts…pffft. We have given quite a few interviews and you’ll be seeing them shortly. The Lewiston Tribune whom is quite...
by Shannon Poe | Aug 1, 2018 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
I have just received an email from IDWR (Idaho Department of Water Resources) and they are denying me the right to mine my claim about 30′ from their “approved area” they designated. They have not given me a reason, just a denial. This is an area...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 28, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, News & Events
Update from the South Fork Clearwater, Saturday July 28, 2018 No miners were cited yesterday. Brooks Beegle (the LEO) was given another “stand down” order citing officer safety. As I write this, I cannot hide my sincere disbelief at the doubling and tripling down by...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 26, 2018 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
South Fork Clearwater update, July 26: Yet another day partially missed to deal with this USFS nonsense. We drove to Grangeville to call a gentleman in Missoula MT at the regional HQ for the USFS. He was cordial, but said some things we found quite baffling. He...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 25, 2018 | News & Events
It is Wednesday evening and we wanted to share one more thing the USFS has done to AMRA. Pictured here is a “Notice of Violation” for “occupancy”. This is given out to people who over stay their 14 days on public lands while camping. It was...
