public lands

Banned pesticides from illegal pot farms seep into California water.

This article about pot grows in the California Motherlode should infuriate everyone. I honestly cannot remember how many of these we’ve found over the years, it’s too many to count anymore. We just found one last week as a matter of fact.   The growers dump chemicals, batteries and trash all over our pristine creeks […]

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A word from AMRA’s President and Vice President

A word from the President and Vice President of AMRA   You may have seen us talking about our annual dinner lately. We host this dinner once a year as our major fundraiser to fund what we, as volunteers do at AMRA and that is to fight to retain access to your public lands, to […]

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Do you want AMRA to keep fighting for your public lands? Come to our big dinner!

Annual AMRA Dinner September 23rd, Auburn CA Gold Country Fairgrounds Doors open at 5pm Well, the date is set, the catered dinner is ordered, the free beer and wine is chilling and the festivities are set to take place September 23rd at the Auburn CA Gold Country Fairgrounds. This is our annual fundraiser folks, and […]

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AMRA is demanding a meeting with the USFS Chief over incidents

This is our letter to USFS Chief Tidwell, Congress, the committees which oversee the USFS, BLM and President Trump’s senior staff on behalf of the small miners and the issue’s we are hearing about now almost every day. We are demanding a face to face meeting to address these stunning revelations. We encourage you to […]

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Revisiting Gavin Siem’s debate with USFS Law Enforcement over constitution.

https://www.facebook.com/callmegav/videos/10154745658632580/?fref=mentions

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Gun raffle to help our local community after the devastating Detwiler Fire

As most of you know, we had one helluva fire up near our home base close to Yosemite. Many of our friends lost everything in their fridge and freezer, some lost their pets, some lost their land and some even lost their homes. Many rely on the meat they had to carry them through the […]

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The 14 day camping rule on a mining claim, is that true?

 Recently, we have been receiving calls, and seeing posts about people having issues with the 14 day rule of camping on your mining claim. As most may know, we have a very close relationship and respect for Kerby Jackson with Galice Mining District in Oregon. Kerby is one of the most knowledgeable people on mining […]

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Highbanking and the DFW illegal confiscation of equipment………..twice.

A few weeks ago we brought you a story of 8 miners, one a claim owner allowing his buddies to mine with him and of a DFW (CA Fish and Wildlife) officer confiscating their foot valve on their highbanker alleging they were violating the 5653(g) section of the DFW regulations.  The miner was told he […]

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DFG confiscates highbanking mining equipment in CA

We have just learned today that a miner, on his mining claim was well, cited kinda……. by a DFG LEO (Dept of Fish and Game, Law Enforcement Officer) for running a small water pump to feed his perfectly legal highbanker. A highbanker is a small box which one shovels dirt into, introduces a little water […]

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Is the Payette USFS out of control?

We’ll let you decide….   http://usfspayettenationalforest.blogspot.com/2017/07/payette-national-forest-under_5.html For the complete article, click here: Payette NF

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