| # | Name | Comments |
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| 601 | Anonymous | |
| 602 | Anonymous | Actually, I support the signing of AB 1032. The activities of rogue gold dredgers are bringing down the whole system for small time, truly recreational dredgers like my family. The New 49ers are gang banging the Klamath and the Salmon. Imagine one guy getting rich by charging citizens $3,000 to dredge on public lands! How did that happen?
Also, many gold dredgers are not out there just for fun and many are drunken gun shooters. This is not family fun and I would not want my small children around many of these guys. Who are we trying to kid?
It is time to take a new look at what is going on out there. Why not have a new EIR? What are we afraid of? This "black helicopter" paranoia is crazy! |
| 603 | buzz sizemore | |
| 604 | Rich Anderson | As a prospector I can see no way that dredging inhibits fish propagation....in fact, if anything, it enhances it. The process by which the so-called studies are being done is FLAWED as well as those that are backing AB 1032.
A big NO on AB 1032!!!! |
| 605 | Mark Murphy | |
| 606 | Ed Gaede | |
| 607 | Larry R | This Bill seems to be way to drastic in the amount of closures and the length of time for yet another study that will go nowhere and cost a lot of money in a lot of ways that the State of California can ill afford. Think very hard Gov. before signing this bill. |
| 608 | Anonymous | |
| 609 | Anonymous | |
| 610 | daryl muzzi | Dredging helps the fish to spawn,by breaking up the hard packed river bottom, also removes mercury from the river, small scale miners also clean up garbage and make improvements to the rivers. This bill is not a good idea, based on a wrong assumption of a few people. |
| 611 | Wade Henry | |
| 612 | Christopher Mohr | Please help protect California's heritage without mining California would not be what it is today. |
| 613 | wes schultz | |
| 614 | Ron C Boggs | Having observed my father and brother's recreational dredging for the past decade, this bill comes as a bit of a shock. Contrary to the alluded detriments to the environment, their actions have bettered the rivers which they have dredged upon. My brother has made it a personal quest to remove the mercury from the rivers, while the crevasses and cracks cleared of debris within the bedrock create refuges for small fish (baby fry). The river
fish take up residence in old dredge holes, as well as benefit from the nutrients dredged up from the old layers of silt. Old dredging holes also provide swimming holes in otherwise shallow rivers for bathers, not to mention thew removal of garbage and old scrap metal, glass, and anything else foreign that my father finds in the river.
In short, I think that this bill is an ill thought out one, without the proper research and investigation to back it up as a legitimate measure for the welfare of the State and it's people,
-Ron Boggs |
| 615 | Krista Boggs | |
| 616 | Wendy Corry | |
| 617 | Mr. George G. Corisis | If protecting the fish the goal of this bill???
Band fishing , problem solved.. |
| 618 | Brett Lauble | There is some hidden agenda on the writing of this bill. It is certainly NOT about the fish. By attaching "save the fish", who would vote against that? |
| 619 | Brett Lauble | There is some hidden agenda on the writing of this bill. It is certainly NOT about the fish. By attaching "save the fish", who would vote against that? |
| 620 | alisoun meehan | |
| 621 | KATHY TODD | PLEASE STOP THIS FROM BECOMING LAW |
| 622 | Troy Phipps | |
| 623 | john klemin | |
| 624 | Anonymous | |
| 625 | Anonymous | |
| 626 | Clayton E. Borchers | |
| 627 | ken f. liddle | |
| 628 | DON J IVERS | I WOULD LIKE YOU TO VOTE NO ON THIS AS I FEEL THIS HELPS THE FISH AND THE WATER WAYS THANK YOU DON J IVERS |
| 629 | Anonymous | I fully disagree with this bill |
| 630 | Aron Starratt | |
| 631 | Steven T. Boswell | |
| 632 | Peter Harvey | |
| 633 | Casey Harvey | |
| 634 | Steven Doyle | |
| 635 | Thomas Lutrel | |
| 636 | michael simoskevitz | |
| 637 | John Meling | Calfornia prospectors are already following environmentally sound practices. Those concerned about the lack of good environmental practices in getting gold need to look elsewhere (other states and other countries) where good practices are not implemented!!! |
| 638 | Diana Clayton | We have spent 1000's of dollars to enjoy this kind of family activity. We see this as really unfair to to the families of miners |
| 639 | Gary Anderson | We should enact laws based on fact, not fancy. |
| 640 | Kelly Hall | |
| 641 | Richard A. Andrews | |
| 642 | stephen m dorman | |
| 643 | Bruce Rouse | |
| 644 | Richard Yoshida | |
| 645 | Terry Moore | Although I do not use a dredge I do use other mining equipment. After the winter rains and spring melts while I am working next to a river or stream you can not tell any dredging had ever happened there. This bill is does no good at all and is being sponsered by a greedy minority. Please do not pass this mistake. |
| 646 | Brian Trailor | |
| 647 | Anthony Manrique | Again more attacks on our freedoms, and as a small scale miner actively looking for gold and other minerals find it absolutely against the constitution to forbid one type of recreation that actually has an age old law as the law of 1872 that grants us, the citizens of the US to locate minerals for the financial well being of our families. The other uses of the rivers and streams in this great country are being over run with people that use these resources for tagging rocks(iilegal activity), cutting down trees to make swimming pools in which to have BBQ's (illegal acivity) moving rocks and such materials to make dams to create swimming pools )illegal activity), Illegal aliens fishing and poaching with out license (illegal activity). Everything I see here in other uses is an Illegal activity, however small scale mining is a constitutionally protected right. We should not allow the wants of the few out weigh the rights of the majority. Dredging cleans out Mercury left from years past at the time a legal activity, it also collects lead weights use dby fisher men and other trash from other uses. This should not becoome law. |
| 648 | Thomas F. Rosenlind | |
| 649 | william poore | we as small scale miners clean-up grave beds and improve spawning beds.
as we are dredging we often see fish feeding on food churned-up by our activites how can this be bad for the fish we improve the food intake of the fish. what we do does not hurt the fish or its habitat.
to take away our rights to enjoy our recreations is detremental to the small scale miner and violates our rights. |
| 650 | Fred Antinora | Please veto AB 1032. It will only hurt the state.
Thank You
Fred |