Month: April 2017

Trump Administration to review Obama national monuments

It looks as though the Trump Administration is focusing on reversing some of the Obama era National Monuments:   http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/04/26/making-local-voices-heard-will-be-central-to-trump-monuments-review/ For the full article, click

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Easter message from AMRA

Happy Easter.   We’ve been off the grid for several days mining and are gearing up for our Vegas trip this coming weekend.   Years ago when AMRA was just a thought in the mind, we knew we didn’t want to create a non-profit (501(c)(3)) that just begged for money, we wanted to have something […]

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Update on the dredge ban in Oregon

Oregon: Note the language written by the Statesman Journal in this article about the recently passed bill banning dredging. They use the term “hobbyist”. Suction dredging is not a hobby. We do not practice catch and release gold mining and toss the gold back into the stream. We dredge with the intent to make money, […]

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What was Ryan Zinke thinking?

http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/04/10/zinkes-bumbling-gives-eco-obstructionists-leverage-over-resource-development/

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The victories for land owners keep coming under the new Administration

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/04/08/texas-wins-victory-ranchers-blm/

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Sue and Settle by enviro groups explained

“…over a decade, eight environmental groups filed more than 3,300 cases in federal district courts across the country. In the last two years of the Bush Administration, seven groups filed 253 lawsuits; in the first two years of the Obama Administration, those groups filed 525 lawsuits…It is not only the sum; also outrageous is the […]

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Forest service blows up small dams with high explosives to restore creeks to natural state

As most of you know, we have had our fair share of issue’s with the US Forest Service. Issue’s like restricting the number of miners who can dredge their claims in Idaho, a Taser being pulled on people panning in creeks, random and illegal stops of grandfathers and grandsons driving on public roads among others. […]

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Our recent letter to President Trump

To the President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500   Dear President Donald J. Trump,                                                          April 5, 2017 I am one of many, many independent full time small scale gold miners in America struggling to survive due to massive regulation and bills passed during […]

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PLF, Pacific Legal Foundation steps up again for the public

https://www.pacificlegal.org/releases/release-4-5-17-granat-1-1449 Pacific Legal Foundation press release, click here

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