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AMERICA’S VOICE FOR A GREATER YELLOWSTONE
215 South Wallace Avenue • Bozeman, Montana 59715

GYC filed suit to stop another mine; this time in southeast Idaho near Kilgore. (Photo: GYC)

no way!
the Kilgore mine
is too risky!

HEADWAY TO BLOCKING THE EMIGRANT GOLD MINE

GYC recently filed a suit with our partners water contamination in the Snake River
Idaho Conservation League, Advocates Aquifer, which provides drinking water We hope you enjoy receiving The
for the West, and Western Mining Action for tens of thousands and a water source Insider. We want to honor your
Project, to object to the Forest Service’s for agriculture and irrigation. The area generosity and commitment
to GYC by keeping in close
approval of the Kilgore Exploration is also critically important for wildlife touch with you. Please let us
Project, which is located about 50 miles movement to and from Yellowstone know how you prefer to hear
west of Yellowstone National Park near and is one of the region’s most prolific from us by calling 406-586-
the small town of Kilgore, Idaho. breeding grounds for elk. 1593 or emailing us at gyc@
greateryellowstone.org. In the
Over the past five years, We believe the Forest meantime, learn about what
Otis Gold has increased its Service did not adequately we’re up to online:
investment and proposed analyze and disclose SOCIAL MEDIA:
a massive expansion of the full spectrum of Greater Yellowstone Coalition
their gold exploration environmental impacts @GYCnews
activities. More recently, associated with this project greateryellowstone
the company proposed the when it granted Otis Gold
OUR BLOG:
construction of an open The proposed gold mine near a permit to greatly expand greateryellowstone.org/blog
Kilgore will impact critical
pit, cyanide-heap leach habitat for elk, grizzly bears, gold exploration activities.
gold mine on 12,150 acres and many other species. There are just some places EMAIL UPDATES:
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if ore exploration yields (Photo: Diane Hargreaves) that are not suitable for
ample gold deposits. mining, and this is one of BI AND ANNUAL REPORTS:
them. (delivered to active donors)
This type of mining has an extensive greateryellowstone.org/donate
history of irreversible environmental Your support helps us continue to THANK YOU for all you
damage. If an open pit, cyanide-heap fight against risky mine proposals in do to protect the Greater
leach gold mine moves forward, it would Greater Yellowstone. Thank you. We Yellowstone Ecosystem,
be a disaster for ground and surface will always say no to mining in places the wild heart of North
water, as well as wildlife habitat. where critical lands, waters, or wildlife America, now and for future
are put at risk. Learn more about our generations.
Cyanide leaching into the nearby West work to protect Greater Yellowstone:
Camas Creek would lead to long term greateryellowstone.org/blog.