Please SHARE this post if you love small mining. Recently a brief was written to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the Solicitor General of the US recommending the Supreme Court NOT hear the landmark Brandon Rinehart case. The case is about whether or not the states can create prohibitions which frustrate […]
We have posted many times on Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030, well known by Conservatives and wide-awake Americans for several years now. They are both plans for a one-world style of governance for America devised by the United Nations (UN) and operates under the guise of sustainability and conservation. We warned of the word “sustainability” […]
This article by our good friends at Free Range Report is one we will be following intensely over the course of this litigation. We talk all the time about road closures by USFS, BLM and how environmental groups sue, fight, protest and influence the decisions to close your lands. This case, while not […]
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 confidence” resolution in the current federal forest management policy. “The U.S. Forest Service’s fire policy is resulting in catastrophic fires,” Josephine […]
Well, can’t say we disagree with this. Just in the past 4 1/2 years we have had to endure two massive fires in our own backyard. One was the 5th largest in the history of California. The latest one came within a mile and a quarter of our home base. Mismanagement of our forests has […]
Our thoughts on Interior Secretary Zinke moving the departments/agencies tasked with managing our public lands out of Washington DC is pretty simple. We’d rather have these folks be available to the folks affected by their management and be in the heart of the lands they manage………..rather than be at the doorstep of the lobbyists and […]
Our friends, the Feldman brothers have a new TV series pilot which is going to air on November 30th. Most will remember the brothers as mining on the show “Ice Cold Gold”. This is pretty exciting as the new show is filmed in the desert Southwest (they are from Arizona) and will be in areas […]
Want to understand how gold gets deposited and why people lode mine? Read this………… https://www.geologyin.com/2014/11/veins-and-hydrothermal-deposits.html?utm_content=bufferad04b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#K2RQDkRBbff1XPtH.99 Or click Veins and hydrothermal deposits of gold
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 is a prime example of yet another USFS move to eliminate one user group from […]
A good read on just how hard it is to be a small miner in Oregon: Oregon gold miner faces unbelievable challenges