Protect Idaho’s Wildlife, Water, and Way of Life
The spectacular Centennial Mountain Range that divides eastern Idaho and Montana holds pristine waters of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, providing clean drinking water for families, farmers, and wildlife.
About 60 miles west of Yellowstone National Park, drilling for an open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine is underway near the small town of Kilgore, Idaho, threatening to forever change this unspoiled piece of public land.
Kilgore, a small eastern Idaho town, is surrounded by family farms and ranches, thick stands of aspen, and fields of wildflowers, and sits just below the rugged and remote Centennial Mountains, where elk, mule deer, grizzly bears, and wolverines wander through the wild landscape.
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 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.
Now, 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.
This type of mine 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.
Cyanide is a toxic chemical used in mining that’s so dangerous, it’s illegal next door in Montana.
A village in Romania flooded with cyanide toxic waste from an open-pit mine.
Thankfully, Idaho hunters, anglers, farmers, ranchers, outdoor recreationists, and families are coming together to stop this open-pit, heap-leach, cyanide gold mine to protect Idaho’s outdoor heritage and way of life.
