You may have put two and two together now by us asking about, and talking about politicians, Secretary of the Dept. of Ag and other topics recently. Yes, in fact AMRA has been invited to go to Washington DC to meet with several Trump supporting people and Trump appointed people. We leave in a few […]
We have to tell you about a man who came to our booth yesterday here at the Sacramento Sportsman Show. He was cited, by mail for having a dredge within 100 yards of a creek/drywash as a part of California DFW 5653 code. This is created from the absurd senate bill 637 pushed and passed […]
In continuing our informative series on the road closures in Arizona, we want to discuss RS2477. In 1866, Congress passed the original mining grant and as a part of that, RS2477 was born which required the roads in the public domain to remain open. Roads……being defined as something as small as a trail. […]
We’d like to tell you about a man we are representing over problems with the USFS in Montana. He picked up two placer claims covering a small dry wash back in 2014 on the side of a mountain. The claims are near the top of this dry wash and rarely see water. The picture […]
We wanted to tell you about a man in another state we are representing and helping with an unbelievable claim (we are not disclosing which state yet). He had a cabin on his patented mining claim bulldozed by the USFS. We have so far determined the claim was originally filed in the early 1900’s […]
A snippet from the article: Now the Forest Service, manager of our nation’s 154 national forests, has decided that they could be much more “efficient” if they simply quit communicating with the public. Under their current proposal (open for comments until August 12), 93.3% of all Forest Service decisions will lose all the current advance […]
This is the line up of speakers for the Idaho Liberty Summit and we are humbled to have been asked to be a speaker at this phenomenal event. AMRA President Shannon Poe will be presenting on Saturday, July 27. If interested in going, click the link below and register. Idaho Liberty Summit 5 Schedule of […]
From our good friend Justin Karr in Washington: The average length of time it took BLM and the Forest Service to complete the first three steps of the mine plan review process and approve 68 mine plans from fiscal years 2010 through 2014 was approximately 2 years. However, the time varied widely, ranging from about […]
Suction Dredging In California, Permits And Politics It has now been nearly 3 ½ years since the passage of Senate Bill 637 (SB637) which labeled anything mechanized or motorized as “a suction dredge” and therefore requires a permit from the California Water Board (CAWB) to operate it in the state. The CAWB was mandated […]
From one of our mining buddies in Idaho: South Fork Clearwater confluence with Crooked River Oh my God! Will you look at that… Just another successful project by the Be a Perce Tribe. This is the turbidity level at the mouth of Crooked River this morning where it joins the South Fork of the Clearwater […]