Kilgore, a small eastern Idaho town about 60 miles west of Yellowstone National Park, is surrounded by family farms and ranches, thick stands of aspen, and fields of wildflowers. Sitting just below the rugged and remote Centennial Mountains, elk, mule deer, grizzly bears, and wolverines wander through the wild landscape. 

A financially unstable foreign mining company with a track record of empty promises wants to build an open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine in the foothills of the Centennials directly above Kilgore. 

Cold, clear streams flow down from the Centennials through Kilgore and provide habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout; water for local farms, ranches, and Idaho’s mighty agricultural economy; and recharges the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer, which provides clean drinking water for 300,000 Idahoans. 

For generations, Idaho families have come to Kilgore and the Centennials for hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, snowmobiling, motorized recreation, and solitude. Kilgore is Idaho’s outdoor heritage at its best. 

A mine here would forever scar the pristine landscape, spoil solitude, poison Idaho’s irrigation and drinking water, and threaten Idaho’s way of life.  

It doesn’t have to be this way, but unless we fight together for Idaho’s way of life, this mine will move forward. Our coalition of ranchers, outdoor recreationists, families, and conservationists are committed to protecting Kilgore from a toxic mine. Learn more about us.