An introduction to HCN's special issue on mining in
Montana shows the state at the center of debate on hardrock
mining.
Magazine
December 22, 1997
Special issue on hardrock mining: Montana has long had a love-hate relationship with hardrock mining, and the prospect of new massive gold mines is bringing all the problems to a boil.
Feature
Montana has long had a love-hate relationship with
hardrock mining, and the prospect of new massive gold mines is
bringing all the problems to a boil.
Sidebar
The proposed McDonald Mine on the Blackfoot River would
impact a landscape made mythic by anglers and Norman Maclean's "A
River Runs Through It."
McDonald mine owners, Canyon Resources, face problems
related to spills, finances and falling gold prices.
Montana writers collaborate on a book called "Headwaters,"
hoping to protect the Blackfoot River from a gold mine.
The statistics of a huge gold mine like the proposed
McDonald Mine are impressive, but the de facto city created will
last only 10 to 20 years.
The Garland family in Lincoln, Mont., illustrates
Montana's love-hate relationship with mining, with Teresa Garland
in favor of the McDonald Mine and her sister Becky strongly against
it.
In his own words, mining geologist KD Feeback defends the
proposed McDonald Mine.
In his own words, retired rancher Land Lindbergh warns
against the damage the McDonald Mine would do to the
Blackfoot.
A time line describes the decline and fall of gold mining
at Montana's Zortman-Landusky Mine.
In his own words, former water-quality enforcer Kevin
Keenan criticizes the state of Montana for its favoring of the
mining industry.
Essays
We are fools to throw away, for a snowmobile's adrenaline
rush, the chance to really get close to nature, the writer
believes.
Perspective
Local activists fight a mining giant when they battle the
Zortman-Landusky gold mine on the edge of the Fort Belknap Indian
Reservation.
Heard Around the West
Romanian road rage in Mont.; Idaho poachers spear chinook
salmon; Wonder Bread recaptures roaming zoo buffalo; crows chase
coyote in Seattle; goldfish surgery; escaping emu in Utah; beaver
re-landscapes condominium; drinking and riding in Great
Falls.
Dear Friends
Snowtime in the Rockies, skipped issue, corrections,
Tucson board meeting, John McPhee recommends HCN.
News
Two companies want to mine the silver that lies underneath
Montana's remote Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.
In Congress, the 1872 Mining Law still rules despite
attempts to change it, but some think there is hope in the future
for reasonable reform.
Activists seek to protect Yellowstone's bison from another
slaughter by physically shepherding wandering bison back onto
protected land.
Rural Colorado's Gunnison County turns down $38 million to
upgrade hihghways, saying the people would rather preserve their
quality of life.
Forest Service admits losing money on timber; Utah plans
to block nuclear waste shipment; Clinton nixes mineral rights
transfer to Montana; Maine's Edwards Dam to be removed for salmon;
Ted Turner sees bucks in bison.
Washington's Lummi Casino closes because of too much
competition.
Judge William Downes rules that the wolf reintroduction in
Yellowstone and central Idaho was illegal and orders the animals to
be removed.
Activists try to end crop burning by farmers in eastern
Washington and northern Idaho, saying the resulting air pollution
is harming the health of area residents.
Letters
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
- Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way
- How tribal leaders want Chuck Sams to lead the Park Service
- Hmong Americans in Northern California fight wildfire — and distrust
- The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
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