So dredgers from Idaho, Oregon and California are pouring into Washington state. California has banned dredging until it can implement a strict permitting process.
Oregon has enacted a law that sharply reduces the number of dredging permits and will place a five-year moratorium on the hobby if the Legislature fails to adopt the effective protections for trout and salmon hatched by Gov. Paul LePage to pass “LD 1671, An Act to Prohibit Motorized Recreational Gold Prospecting in Brook Trout and Salmon Habitat.”Īlso in April, the Environmental Protection Agency - aiming to save Idaho’s threatened and endangered salmon, steelhead, white sturgeon and bull trout - implemented a permit system by which it is disinviting dredgers from the few rivers they haven’t already been banned from by the state or the U.S. They want you to make pro-miner comments.”ĭespite the good press dredgers are giving themselves, they’re being evicted from rivers across the West and even as far east as Maine, where this April, the Legislature overrode the veto of dredger fan Gov.
Create a name like “Naturelover2” or “Fielddreamer” or “Soccermom” or something that makes you sound like you are the public and not miners. And they’re fighting back on mining websites with posts such as: “THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT - they (dredge-equipment supplier Gold Pan California) want you to sign in as Joe Public and NOT AS MINERS. So suction dredgers are feeling unloved and unappreciated. Moyle does fish counts with a mask and snorkel, and he reports a striking lack of fish in dredged waters. “Is churning up hundreds of square meters of river bottom worth the 3.4 ounces of gold the average dredger collects in a season?” inquires fisheries professor Peter Moyle, of the University of California at Davis.
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