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heavy machinery clearing forest with men in coats as they operate a drilling machine at the Kilgore Project area site

Kilgore Project Public Comment Guide

Alex Feb 06, 2021 Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Grizzly Bears, Habitat Corridor, Idaho, Keystone Species, Kilgore Project, Mining, Noise Pollution, Snake River Plain Aquifer

Kilgore Project Proposal Recap Before jumping into our Kilgore Project Public Comment Guide, let’s clearly define what the proposal is. On July 22, 2020, Excellon Resources (EX), a Canadian mining

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 5: The Punchline

Eric Feb 04, 2021 Backpacking Idaho, Big Table Mountain, Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat Corridor, Idaho, Idaho Falls, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Otis Gold, Religion, Ridgeline, Snake River Plain Aquifer

A Reckoning It’s time that I admit that the Downstream Effects series has been misguided. Almost all 7,250 words of parts 1 through 4 of this series of posts have

aerial view of red sludge flooded an entire river and vally and broke a bridge

28 Facts, Tragedies, & Catastrophes of Open-Pit Mines

Alex Jan 31, 2021 Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Dams, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Environmental, environmental disasters, environmental racism, Excellon Resources, First Peoples, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Montana, Politics, River, Tragedy, Utah

Why a Countdown of 28 Facts, Tragedies, & Catastrophes of Open-Pit Mines? On January 12, 2021, the Post Register published a Forest Service legal notice giving the public 30 days

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 4: The Snake River Plain Aquifer

Eric Jan 29, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Crow Creek, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Nez Perce War, Otis Gold, Snake River Plain Aquifer, The Decemberists, Yellowstone NP

Love Letters Again, Still By now, it may or may not be clear that each Part of the Downstream Effects series is a love letter that is also a sword

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 2: Camas NWR

Eric Jan 14, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Otis Gold

A Second Affair If you write one love letter to a place you’ve never been to, it might be construed as endearing. Like the time I wrote a letter to

Forest Service Says What? Part I: Grizzlies in Kilgore Project Area

Alex Jan 10, 2021 Bear, Centennial Mountains, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Grizzly Bears, Idaho, IDFG, Kilgore Project, Maps, Mining, Rocky Mountains, Uncategorized

Introducing ScholarDay’s New Investigative Series: “Forest Service Says What?” Rewind to 2018 (oh how young we were!), the Forest Service invited us to submit how we felt about letting a

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 1: Mud Lake

Eric Jan 10, 2021 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Idaho 33, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mud Lake WMA, Nez Perce, Otis Gold

Memories of Mud Lake I wish I had more memories of Mud Lake. In fact, I can’t honestly say that I’ve seen the lake itself or its adjacent wetlands, since

Idaho Superlatives: A Missed Opportunity with the Kilgore Project?

Eric Jan 01, 2020 Backpacking Idaho, Big Table Mountain, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Dams, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining

Status of the Kilgore Project The end of 2019 has brought with its shortest-of-days some Kilgore Project-related gifts: December 18, 2019 — Advocates for the West won a ruling from

The sublime majesty of cyanide

Eric May 10, 2018 Centennial Mountains, Centennial Valley, Cyanide, Dams, Environmental, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Montana, Otis Gold

ScholarDay has been writing recently of a proposed open pit cyanide heap leach mine proposed in the Centennial Mountains in Eastern Idaho: the Kilgore Project. We’ve talked about how the

Open Pit mining in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Timeline of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s Open-Pit Apocalypse

Alex Apr 22, 2018 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Otis Gold

The Fickle Business of the Open Pit: 1937 – 2008 1937: Blue Ledge Company sets up underground adits, potential prospect pits, a tramway, and a foundation for a mill that

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