In Our View: 'The Fish Win'; County Commissioners Correctly Rule to Deny Further Mining On East Fork
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The river that flows into the river that runs to the sea deserves protection, and so do fish within it.
Gravel mining in the river -- in this case the East Fork of the Lewis River -- is harmful to steelhead and salmon, and this week Clark County commissioners, by a 2 to 1 vote, denied Storedahl & Sons of Kelso permission to expand gravel mining on 350 acres they own at the river.See the full content of this document
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In Our View: 'The Fish Win'; County Commissioners Correctly Rule to Deny Further Mining On East Fork
Dick Dyrland, president of Friends of the East Fork, correctly called the decision, a "step forward for the ci...
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