A bill that aims to improve water quality and protections for endangered salmon by restricting suction dredge mining met with the Senate’s approval Thursday. The bill, HB 1261, would prohibit suction ...

A long-simmering conflict over individual versus public rights has converged on the banks of the rivers of southwest Oregon, stirring resentment between gold miners and environmentalists. In question ...

Chuck Wilson and Kim McDonald share a love of outdoor recreation and nature. But they’re on opposite sides when it comes to suction dredge mining. Wilson, president of the Washington Prospectors ...

the legislation brings Washington into line with other Western states that in recent years have banned or severely restricted the recreational sucking up of river sediments in hopes of finding ...

This might be news to city slickers, but down in southwest Oregon there's still plenty of gold in them thar rivers. Dave McCracken, founder and president of The New 49'ers Prospecting Association, ...