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 […]
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 […]
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
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Montana miner is back to work. We were contacted by a miner in Montana a few months ago. He had been denied and delayed on his Plan of Operations for 3 1/2 years by the Forest Service. AMRA stepped in, represented the miner and after one meeting with the USFS we got his […]
Isn’t the Environmental Protection Agency supposed to be above reproach? If I’m to understand correctly, it’s not just a bloiated hive of bureaucrats soaking up public salaries. To hear liberals tell it, it’s supposedly the first line of defense for Americans who rely on it for clean air and clean water, depending on the agency […]
A judge who previously banned a charter school from using the Bible and who acquitted the sniper who killed three people at Ruby Ridge in 1992 has agreed to allow the Environmental Protection Agency essentially to take a half-acre of private land from an Idaho couple. Chantell and Michael Sackett won a ruling at the U.S. Supreme […]
