Month: June 2017

Asking for your input

We are currently working on the speaking agenda and topics for our huge gold and great outdoor show in September in Auburn CA.   We are considering a speaker who will explain how to file a mining claim and then maintain it, how to keep it current and the paperwork requirements.   Would you be […]

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Stunning hypocrisy, simply stunning.

The U.S. Forest Service acknowledged there isn’t much it can do about a “Rainbow Family” gathering expected to bring thousands of counter-culture types to the Malheur National Forest in Eastern Oregon over the next two weeks. The organizers don’t have a permit, and the Forest Service’s response to that has angered area residents such as […]

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Surprise………the EPA lies and covers up their involvement in the Gold King Mine spill

Once again, the EPA is covering up their ineptness in the Gold King Mine spill they created in 2015. http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/16/deluge-of-lies-epa-covers-up-the-truth-about-its-role-in-disastrous-gold-king-mine-spill/

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Trump’s Interior Department Secretary, Montana rancher and former Navy Seal Ryan Zinke, is proving to be more than just a dramatic contrast to Obama’s Interior chief, liberal Democrat recreation industry exec., Sally Jewell. Zinke’s getting to work unraveling her legacy–and that of previous progressive predecessors–in short order. Beyond the Obama monument land grabs, which are currently […]

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Obama’s midnight executive order on Bears Ears

The BLM’s resource management plan and maps of the region show that two-thirds of the land inside the 1.35-million acre monument is in some sort of protected status, withdrawn from mineral development. For the full article; http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/14/bears-ears-protected-restricted-from-development-before-national-monument-proclamation/

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Couple Forced to Destroy 50yo Pond on Their Own Property Because Govt Owns the Rainwater

It is the property’s most attractive feature, and because the government said so, they have to remove it. Although, Jon and Sabrina Carey purchased the 10-acre property near Butte Falls two and a half years ago, the pond has been in place for 50 years. That fact doesn’t remotely matter to the Jackson County Watermaster’s […]

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AMRA Outing June 24th and 25th near Coulterville CA

Have you ever wanted your own gold claim?   How about a new 9mm handgun?   New mining supplies?   What if you could get these for just $1.00?   Well you can. Come to our public outing in just 8 days and these prizes could be yours. AMRA opens our 5 claims to the […]

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how-environmentalist-litigation-is-sending-our-national-forests-up-in-smoke

Rep. Tom McClintock, one of the few members of Congress who understands what we public land users face, has written a very good narrative on how litigation by the enviro groups affects our forests. Great article: http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/10/how-environmentalist-litigation-is-sending-our-national-forests-up-in-smoke/

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The culture change at USFS

Shortly after the Presidential election in November of last year, we posited that it would take about 6 months after Mr. Trump took office to start to change the culture in some of these regulatory and management agencies. Looks like it has begun to change: http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/11/nm-state-engineer-defends-ranchers-water-rights-from-illegal-forest-service-actions/

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And now for a little good news…

This article really needs no narrative from us: http://freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/06/08/justice-department-ends-government-bankrolling-of-liberal-groups-in-legal-settlements/  

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