![]() Please distribute this information and the urgent call to make comments far and wide: Suction dredging – a mining practice that requires a gasoline-powered motor to run an underwater vacuum to suck up large amounts of gravel and sediment from the river bed to collect gold – harms water quality, as well as fish and wildlife and the habitat these wild creatures depend on. ![]() I have attached a fact sheet from Steve Evans of Friends of the River on the situation. The draft regulations are open for public comment until 5 p.m., Monday. Yesterday afternoon I learned that the state Fish and Game Department is considering regulations that would reopen streams to suction dredge mining all across California including on the East Fork of the San Gabriel, pictured below back when it was open previously. ![]() Jim Blomquist of Friends of the River writes: ![]()
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