The Pioneer Press has received multiple letters about last week's article regarding a petition sent to California's Fish and Game to limit suction dredging for gold on certain North State rivers and tributaries by the Karuk, California Trout and Friends of the North Fork.

Now, it's the miner's turn to slam back. Many wrote letters reading that the technique in fact helps salmon and other fish, and doesn't hurt them, as the Karuk have argued.

Meanwhile, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors has asked area miner Jim Foley to write a resolution that they could send to Fish and Game in opposition to the Karuk petition to limit suction dredge mining. The words were approved by the county administrator and Foley will present the formal letter to the board and publicly ask the board to send the letter to Fish and Game in the form of a resolution at Tuesday's board meeting in Yreka at the court house at 9 a.m. Foley is asking all miners interested in the issue to come to the meeting and support the resolution.

 

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