Blue Ledge Mine work to be funded by stimulus (Posted 05/01/09)
Eighty-five jobs are expected to be created when the U.S. Forest Service begins an $8.5 million environmental cleanup of the long-abandoned Blue Ledge Mine in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. The funds are part of $157 million in federal stimulus package projects the agency announced Friday evening as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for national forests in Oregon and Washington.Read the Medford Tribune article at: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090419/NEWS/904190335