Over my years of traipsing around public lands in the West I have come across hundreds of uncapped 3-foot tall PVC pipes sticking out of the ground. For a long time I didn’t know the purpose of the pipes but later came to understand that they were used as markers for mining claims. I’ve peered […]
Continue Reading →Utah’s Kennecott pit shocks Native Alaskans contemplating the proposed giant Pebble Mine-
Kennecott’s pit on the edge of Salt Lake City has been a fixture of the area for many years. It polluted the ground water and the smelter poisoned the air, but it […]
Continue Reading →EPA wants the dam to release clean, treated water.
The dam built to keep selenium and heavy metals also blocks water flows to the Blackfoot River.
EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam.
By JOHN MILLER – Associated Press
20 year threat of mining near Yellowstone National Park is over.
The New World Mine was proposed to be built just north of Yellowstone National Park in 1990 by a Canadian mining company but it received a lot of opposition because it greatly threatened the headwaters of the Clark Fork of the Yellowstone and Soda […]
Continue Reading →Wyoming herd is a big tourist attraction
The Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Locatable Mineral Withdrawal may be extended to protect bighorn sheep habitat from development for another 20 years. The herd there is estimated to be about 1,000 bighorn.
Feds propose extending minerals extraction ban on bighorn habitat.
Casper Star Tribune
Conservation deal for Canadian forest the size of Texas-
Although the first article below has a somewhat pessimistic tone, this certainly seems better than the current trend in boreal Canada. There is more value to the vast boreal forest than caribou.
Caribou still at risk under historic forestry deal. Industry, environmentalists band together […]
Continue Reading →1,142 acres of BLM Land in southeast Idaho could be sold to Simplot for phosphate mining
This would be a precedent setting decision that would eliminate access to this land and limit input into how it is managed.
Agency mulls selling public land for mine
TODD DVORAK – Associated Press
Is this a final victory in 23 year fight against the mine?
It probably isn’t because Judge Molloy both ruled for and against conservationists on their variety of claims, but it does send the Forest Service’s decision to approve the mine back to square one.
Molloy blocks mine beneath Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. By Michael […]
Continue Reading →Controversy began 1n 1974-
Well what a cause for celebration this is! I can remember I was just starting to explore the wild country as a young man back in 1974 when Sage Creek Coal proposed a big coal mine on Cabin Creek, a tributary to the North Fork of the Flathead. In 2008 I […]
Continue Reading →Great progress on the mining mess of the New World Mining district above Cooke City-
Although the article below writes of the headwaters of the Yellowstone. It is actually Soda Butte Creek and the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone.
They have been poking around and doing some mining here since the 19th Century. In the […]
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