by Shannon Poe | Jul 28, 2017 | News & Events
Okay, we got a little distracted by the recent fire up at headquarters over the past two weeks. MANY THANKS to the outstanding personnel who responded to this fire and to those who are still deployed out there so that we may sleep soundly tonight- from the bottom of...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 20, 2017 | News & Events
Due to the Detwiler fire being in our backyard, we will only be posting on Facebook while we are still up here, and on generator power. Keep abreast of the fire as we are posting every few hours on our Facebook page located here:...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 19, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Midnight update in Greeley Hill CA, July 19th. First of all, after reading the other post on our Facebook page, panic is a strong term and we are fine. Thanks to Don Siegel, Joe Harrison, Joe Lema, Cathy Lema, and Bobby Alquist, we saved about $20,000 worth of...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 18, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events
“Endangered Species” A Red Herring Tom Ellison of the Regional US Forest Service office once told senior Payette National Forest Management officials in no uncertain terms: “The law does not agree with our agenda” but it “doesn’t...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 17, 2017 | Current Legislation, News & Events
About 6 months ago we posited that it would take about 6 months for the new administration to start changing the culture within some of the regulatory and management agencies like USFS, BLM and EPA. Well, changes are coming, happening and welcome news. ...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 14, 2017 | News & Events
We are so very sorry to announce today that Jerry Keene has passed away. Here is a letter from the Keene family. Please join us in sending our condolences to Pat and family, he will be sorely missed. Dear Friends, Family and Valued Customers. It is with deep regret...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 11, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
Dredging 101 We are frequently asked about dredging and have trained a lot of people how to dredge over the years. Dredgers have their own language (not universal), and when underwater they cannot verbally communicate so we have sign language. This is “our” language...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 9, 2017 | All About Mining, Highbanking, News & Events
We have just learned today that a miner, on his mining claim was well, cited kinda……. by a DFG LEO (Dept of Fish and Game, Law Enforcement Officer) for running a small water pump to feed his perfectly legal highbanker. A highbanker is a small box which one...
by Shannon Poe | Jul 5, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events
We’ll let you decide…. http://usfspayettenationalforest.blogspot.com/2017/07/payette-national-forest-under_5.html For the complete article, click here: Payette NF
