Guest Editorial—California "Special" Dredge Permits in Jeopardy

December 1999 by Guest Writer

Restoring the Rule of Law to US Mining

February 2004
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) sponsored the Federal Agency Compliance Act (S-1166) in the 105th Congress to prevent bureaucrats from abusing their office by ignoring federal case law. This legislation apparently failed, but is still needed. During the Clinton administration, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt illegally directed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to...

Wyoming's Billion Dollar Nugget—The Trilogy Ends

July 2011
With eight loads processed, a pumpkin-size rock fell into the hopper, stopping the whole operation until I could lift it out.

Ask the Experts

November 2007
Q: How do we get Congress to make up for some of their blunders and do something productive for a change, such as releasing those withdrawn WSAs?

House Chair Requests Records on Forest Decision

December 1999
House Resources Chairman Don Young is asking the White House and Agriculture Department for records related to President Clinton's decision to place 40 million acres of remote, federal forest land off-limits for development.

Ask The Experts - Is a detector a good return on investment?

November 2020

Over the Divide

December 1999
Robert A. Sanregret
1930 - 1999

Our Readers Say

January 2002
• "Thank you..."
• "...dredges under 8" need not be regulated"

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