The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has cited five individuals in Siskiyou County for illegal suction dredge mining in state waterways. Suction dredgers operate by creating a vacuum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gold miner Shannon Poe’s suction dredge mining operation on the South Fork of the Clearwater in Idaho was found to be in violation ...

BOISE (AP) | A committee on Wednesday sent the full Idaho House a bill aimed at eliminating federal Clean Water Act protections for gold suction dredges and also opening designated wild and scenic ...