In the foothills above the agricultural community of Kilgore, Idaho, progressing mining activities have the potential to threaten the water quality and way of life for thousands of Idahoans.
KEEP KILGORE’S WATER CLEAN!
Kilgore, Idaho, is a rural community with a rich ranching and farming heritage. Surrounded by wild, undeveloped lands, Kilgore is emblematic of Idaho’s way of life.
A proposal for gold exploration and the threat of future cyanide gold mining in the nearby Caribou-Targhee National Forest threatens water quality, recreation opportunities, and agriculture, not only in Kilgore, but in countless downstream communities as well.
Clear streams that start as mountain springs high above town wind through the lowlands, feeding stands of aster and aspen and supporting Kilgore’s rich history of ranching and agriculture.
Idahoans come here to find solitude in the outdoors, hunt big game in the hills, and fish for cutthroat in the area’s many creeks.
This landscape and its rural communities are under the looming threat of heap-leach cyanide gold mining.
A foreign-owned mining company has set its sights on tearing up the hills near Kilgore in search of gold. If ongoing gold exploration drilling yields sufficient gold resources, Kilgore could very likely be the site of an open-pit heap-leach cyanide gold mine that would forever change this special area.
A village in Romania flooded with cyanide toxic waste from an open-pit mine.
