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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 23 > Frontier dreams of gold clash with fish habitat

Frontier dreams of gold clash with fish habitat

By Phuong Le / The Bulletin
November 23, 2008

LIBERTY, Wash. — Ed Levesque heads into the Wenatchee Mountains every weekend with the same fever that lured his forebears here during the gold rush of the 1870s.

“There’s lots of gold in this creek,” said the 63-year-old miner. “In the old days,....

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