Josephine County Commissioners declare a vote of no confidence with USFS

by Shannon Poe | Nov 22, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events

Josephine County Board of Commissioners declare no-confidence resolution with U.S. Forest Service Josephine County Board of Commissioners declare no-confidence resolution with U.S. Forest Service Grants Pass, Or.- Josephine County Commissioners have declared a “no...

Trump rolls back restrictions on accessing public lands

by Shannon Poe | Nov 17, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events

As most of you can imagine, we get a ton of emails and calls on new bills, laws and movements by enviro groups to further take away the public lands from you…..who owns the lands. Right now there are attacks in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California to further...

USFS Probert makes another move to eliminate public land users from using their lands

by Shannon Poe | Nov 3, 2017 | All About Mining, News & Events

We’ve posted many time that mining claim owners have fundamental rights, rights of access, rights to the minerals in the ground and that others like snowmobile users, hikers, campers and hunters have “privileges” to use our public lands. Well, here...

Explaining the plight of a small miner in Oregon

by Shannon Poe | Oct 28, 2017 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, News & Events

A good read on just how hard it is to be a small miner in Oregon: Oregon gold miner faces unbelievable challenges

Thursday night update on the Barstow/BLM road closures

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...