I cannot believe that this moron would ban dredging in California!.. This screws up my whole summer and all the trips that we had planned last winter. That prick just put thousands of people out of work who rely on us prospectors to buy there equipment, food, and gold camp outings and he did this with a thoughtless stroke of a pen!....What gets me is that dredging is banned even up to the Nevada/Calif line..as if there has been a salmon up that far in over a couple of million years! I'm reading about how the   The Karuk Tribe rely on the salmon and lamprey; an eel like fish as a food source.. Come on give me a break!  This is bullshit. Bet they have a MacDonald's  in there town.

Who are the Karuk?

This small Native American tribe lives in Siskiyou and Humboldt Counties in the northwest corner of California. Most members of the tribe live in the city of Happy Camp where they continue to practice their age old customs of hunting, basket making and fishing.  Hey what about me? I'm practicing an age old custom of prospecting. 

A LAW SUIT WAS FILED TODAY BY CA MINERS AGAINST THE SB 670 DREDGING BAN. THEY WILL PREVAIL. ONCE DONE, CA STATE WILL HAVE TO PAY HUGE DAMAGES TO THE 25,000 OWNERS OF UNPATENTED PLACER CLAIMS ON FEDERAL LAND IN CALIFORNIA. CLEARLY FEDERAL LAW OVER-RIDES STATE LAW.

As for all of us that paid for our permits for this year..guess what?  The state has a  screw you attitude and you will not get your fee's back! 
I'm so glad that this is Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger last term.