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  • Take a hammer to the 1872 Mining Act

    Ralph Maughan

    “The 137-year-old law is a legacy of a bygone era in the West” Folks have been trying to change this law my entire life and long before that. Will this be the year? If so, how much can it be changed? The Oregonian thinks change is now politically possible. The 1872 Act has long been…

  • House passes reform of 1872 mining law

    Ralph Maughan

    The U.S. House easily passed reform of the 1872 mining law that still governs the discovery and extraction of “hard rock” minerals on public lands. The bill did not pass it by enough, however, to override President Bush’s veto. A weaker bill is expected to pass the Senate, one more in line with some of…

  • Many in Boise, Idaho area hoping for mining reform to reduce local mining threat

    Ralph Maughan

    The U.S. House of Representative may be close to passing long overdue reforms to the 1872 mining law. Many in the Boise, Idaho area [Treasure Valley] are hoping for changes that will stop the proposed pit mines Canadian mining companies want to excavate upstream at Atlanta, Idaho and other places in the central Idaho mountains.…

  • House Natural Resources Committee passes a major reform of the 1872 general mining law

    Ralph Maughan

    Groups have been trying to reform this for a couple generations. Bush has said he will veto it. House panel OKs bill imposing mining royalties. By Noelle Straub. Billings Gazette Washington Bureau Instead of the old nearly free mining clam/patent system, mining operations would have to pay a royalty on “hard rock minerals” like gold,…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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