From the President of AMRA on California suction dredging; First of all, we would like to apologize for the length of this write up, but it is necessary. We are pretty sure if you are like us, you’re fed up with over-regulation, dishonest politicians, state agencies delaying their duties under the law and […]
We have been talking about the Bohmker case in Oregon for some time now which is being presented to the United States Supreme Court. We had the privilege of meeting Josh Bohmker and his two children this past weekend at the Fresno GPAA gold show and would like to introduce him to everyone. Josh […]
Friends of the Clearwater have produced their version of how bad suction dredging is, even though fisheries biologists, studies and science conclusively prove the benefits of dredging to fisheries and plan to show this video to the public. The meeting, open to the public is in Moscow Idaho on March 25th 7-9pm at the 1912 […]
This is an interesting story out of Montana as Kerby Jackson points out: “Not really an unexpected outcome, unfortunately, as these are Post-1955 claims due to a relocation in the 1980’s. Based on my reading of the administrative record, Kornec got screwed by BLM back in the 80’s after their refusal to recognize the […]
HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO HELP A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN THE RINEHART CASE LOST IN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT, AND THEN WAS APPEALED TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT; THE UNITED STATES SOLICITOR GENERAL RECOMMENDED THAT THE RINEHART CASE NOT BE HEARD – PARTLY BECAUSE THERE WAS A CLEARER CASE OVER THE SAME ISSUES DEVELOPING […]
It is time the small miners of California to once again tell our elected politicians to get off their butts and follow the laws they passed. We have penned a letter to the Senate Natural Resource Committee about the California Water Board having their staff cut literally days before they were to go public with […]
We wanted to share a paper written by a college student and AMRA member we recently met in Sonora. Thank you Mariesa for your hard work researching and writing this paper! Suction Gold Dredges Benefit California’s Rivers and Streams Mariesa Yeoman Southern New Hampshire University Introduction Destruction, pollution, and a lack of respect for […]
We are proud to announce we have partnered with the GPAA/Delta Gold Diggers on another project. We will be performing a peaceful protest on over-regulation in California and are going to dispel the notion that small miners are just a bunch of knuckle dragging, cousin loving, environmental trashers. We have selected two areas […]
We’ve long held that many within the USFS are good people, and they are, but we see stories like this one way too frequently. From the Aspen Times: Access to a private driveway is at the heart of a dispute between the owner of a Lenado residence and the U.S. Forest Service. Eaden Shantay filed […]