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April 23, 2012
Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service
For over a century, toxic runoff from the Blue Ledge Mine destroyed aquatic life and fisheries in Joe Creek, a tributary to the world-famous Rogue River in Oregon.