Year: 2019

Thank you Stanislaus National Forest (USFS)!

We wanted to give a big thank you to the Stanislaus National Forest (USFS) for the awesome work they did on our claimed called “The Office” up in Bull Creek.   They fixed the road, cut the hazardous trees and stacked all the firewood along the road for people to use (with a fire permit). […]

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Democrat candidate Elizabeth Warren wants mining banned on public lands

April 15 (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Monday she would ban all fossil fuel extraction on federal land and in coastal waters, setting herself apart from a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls who have made climate change a central campaign issue but have yet to outline specific policies. Warren said in […]

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Supreme Court Moves to Overturn Conviction of Joe Robertson, Fined and Jailed for Digging Ponds on his Rural Montana Property

Justice is finally served in Montana. (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the Supreme Court of the United States has overturned a lower court decision affirming the conviction of Joseph Robertson, a 78-year-old veteran now deceased who was sentenced to prison for digging ditches on his rural Montana property to protect the area […]

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Are you sick of what is happening in California? Over-regulation, closing roads and public lands? Join our protest!

California protest on over-regulation, road closures and the suction dredge prohibition: Walk A Mile In Our Shoes……. Please SHARE this post. For a few months now we have been discussing holding and coordinating a significant peaceful protest in California (state capital) over the destructive over-regulation of not just suction dredging for small-scale miners, but road […]

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Bohmker v Oregon – Everything you need to know

Miners, this is a very, very important post.  The Bohmker case in Oregon has extreme potential and ramifications if it gets to the Supreme Court.  We highly encourage you to read this article (link below) written by the GPAA explaining everything you need to know about it.   For the complete article, click Bohmker V […]

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Bend Oregon: get ready to be blocked, or charged to use public lands

Whatever else the restricted entry to wilderness accomplishes, access seems certain to be less equitable. And if the public can’t go and experience wilderness, the public won’t be as supportive of efforts to preserve it. For the complete article in the Bend Bulletin, click the link below Editorial, USFS underwhelming wilderness plans  

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Do you get poison oak? Read this…….

Hate poison oak as much as we do? Then here is a post you will want to share with anyone who goes out in the woods. Now is the time when poison oak is growing like a weed. From Washington to Southern California, poison oak makes lives miserable, and in some cases can even kill. […]

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Learn everything about metal detecting!

You have to love (and sometimes hate) the internet. We recently picked up a new Mine Lab Gold Monster 1000 and wanted to see it in action before we take it out tomorrow. Just so happens our good buddy Bill Southern down in Arizona is an expert on that detector (and most detectors). If you […]

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Greeley Hill CA market fire

Our home town of Greeley Hill CA had a fire yesterday at our beloved Greeley Hill Market. The people who work here, shop here and frequent here are our friends, family and loved ones. We will support the employees of the market any way we can during this time of closure.   We also wanted […]

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Turbidity by suction dredges? Look at this….hypocrisy

So Idaho Conservation League, the USFS, the EPA and many others claim a tiny little plume from a tiny little suction dredge creates so much turbidity that it harms fish. These pictures were taken yesterday on the same river (South Fork Clearwater in Idaho) they claim are damaged by plumes from dredging.  Let that sink […]

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