" no dredging in california"

[montana]

Sean C. We have the adventure pass here in Az at Sedona where you have to have it to park and hike in the redrocks and also at the Lynx lake recreation area near Prescott. Just think what kind of an impact the dredging ban will have on some local economies where dredgers buy their groceries, gas , and other supplies. Also the dredge manufacturers like Keene and Proline. They are small companies that may be forced to close their doors and lay off employees . They are too small to have much influence with the lawmakers. In this economy we need every job , and especially the small businesses. And you are right, both parties are involved in this mess . This all started before the Democrats took over the whitehouse.----Bob

[GeneYo]

While Calif seems to bearing the major impact of these green movements which have demonized mining in any form it's been spreading everywhere like a wildfire. It seems the govt wants us like captive sheep.

While I don't live in Calif the ramifications of this will be felt in many of the western states which have dredge values in the stream beds. I will not be the least surprised if other states may try to follow suit which might have an endangered trout somewhere hiding under a rock.

The problems are the major amount of our populations live in big cities and rarely go outdoors except except to go hiking on a designated trail. They could care less about these bills which our founding fathers would deem unconstitutional which allows them to easily pass the govt litmus test.

But in the long run don't worry about it because we can buy our gold from Latin America and China along with our aluminum, steel, copper, uranium, talc, tungsten, moly, oil, glass, silver....along with our cars and clothes. We've got lots of money and a healthy overpaid employment market and can afford to continue sending it overseas by the billions and trillions, right?