uming up the river bottom” and says while millions of dollars
are being spent on habitat restoration and salmon protection,
the mining is destroying that habitat.
Frank Armendariz of Eugene-based River Trail Outfi tters
says SB 401, introduced by State Sen. Alan Bates, would
protect the water and fi sh, as well as the businesses that de-
pend on rivers. “I’m a river guide; a lot of what our business
does is fi sh and raft on the McKenzie.”
There is currently a moratorium on suction-dredge min-
ing in California, and as a result, Laughlin says, more mining
is coming to Oregon’s rivers and their native salmon runs.
Though at this point the mining impacts have been felt more
strongly in southern Oregon, Armendariz says there have
been mining applications on Quartz Creek, a tributary of the
McKenzie River.
Portions of the McKenzie are already protected as an Or-
egon Scenic Waterway, but Armendariz says SB 401 would
protect the lower McKenzie, its water and its summer steel-
head, endangered spring Chinook salmon, endangered bull
trout, rainbow trout and cutthroat trout.
Scenic waterways protection means that the Oregon Parks
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