by Shannon Poe | Oct 18, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
Barstow/BLM illegal road closures… We are home after a rather interesting weekend down in Barstow CA. We’ll take you through the time line of what happened with the BLM and their closure of the roads leading to the validly held mining claims of literally...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 15, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Nearly a week ago now, we told you about the Ketchum family, dear friends and lifetime members of AMRA who lost everything in the fire near Santa Rosa. The Boston news channel picked up the story…....
by Shannon Poe | Oct 12, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events, Outings & Meetings
Update on the Barstow/BLM road closures. We spent much of today on the phone with attorney’s, County Supervisors, other elected folks, the media and our own staff. Not to mention dealing with an injured pup, our boy Charlie. He’s going to be OK, but man...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 11, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
Update on the Barstow/BLM road closure issue. We have not had our final conference with the BLM. We pushed the call to tomorrow so we can review some final legal documents. We have all of the management plans, the lawsuit filed by, you guessed it…Center for...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 10, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
The picture here was taken today. This is in front of the Bear River sign at the entrance to the public area near Auburn CA. We drove there today and AMRA pressed to be included (on your behalf) in a meeting with Senatorial, Congressional, and Assembly staff members...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 10, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Roasting marshmallows, not forests If you have fond memories of roasting marshmallows around the campfire, and making s’mores with the kids, you may be surprised to learn that you’ve been doing it wrong all this time. Fortunately, the U.S. Forest Service has finally...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 10, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
About Britt and Zak Ketchum and their loss of homes, shop and vehicles in a rabid wildfire in California last night. I just got off the phone with Britt and he’s well……Britt. I could tell it’s stressful, but Britt is never angry, never down and...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 9, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
We have just been notified that two of AMRA’s beloved members (one a lifetime member) have both lost their homes due to raging fires last night near Loma Rica. Britt Ketchum lost his home, all his mining equipment (so many dredges we can’t count), his...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 8, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We’ve long held that the EPA is the most dangerous regulatory agency within government. They are attempting to be Congress by unilaterally rewriting the definitions of our laws so they can escape scrutiny by the very public who they are supposed to represent and...
by Shannon Poe | Oct 6, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
Many do not know this, but recently we have received a letter from Mr. Trump, yes, a personal letter in response to our weekly letters we have sent on your behalf outlining the troubles small miners have faced in America. We are communicating with Ryan Zinke’s...
