by Shannon Poe | Jan 4, 2020 | Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
In continuing our informative series on the road closures in Arizona, we want to discuss RS2477. In 1866, Congress passed the original mining grant and as a part of that, RS2477 was born which required the roads in the public domain to remain open....
by Shannon Poe | Dec 25, 2019 | All About Mining, Current Legislation, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
To: President Donald J. Trump December 25, 2019 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington D.C. 20006 Dear President Trump, Firstly, let me thank you for your courage and tenacity in exposing the near coup which surely would have taken place had you, and I emphasize “you” not...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 23, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We received this email from our good friend Tom Kitchar. Tom has been leading the fight for dredging in Oregon for decades and because Oregon has ignored (in our opinion) federal laws for a long time, the miners are taking it to SCOTUS. Tom Kitchar, Waldo Mining...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 13, 2019 | All About Mining, Dredging, Highbanking, News & Events
We thought we’d remind some of you, and introduce some of you to some provisions in our laws which address what options you have with over-zealous federal employees which overstep their authority and violate your rights. Say you are a mining claim owner and...
by Shannon Poe | Dec 11, 2019 | All About Mining, Highbanking, News & Events
We’d like to tell you about a man we are representing over problems with the USFS in Montana. He picked up two placer claims covering a small dry wash back in 2014 on the side of a mountain. The claims are near the top of this dry wash and rarely see water....