The Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear population in Northwest Montana, numbering at most 45 bears, is facing the real threat of extinction at the hands of the Montanore Minerals Corporation. Of all the appallingly destructive environmental impacts outlined in the Montanore Mine proposal, the dangers such a plan poses to the threatened grizzly bear population of the Kootenai National Forest and Cabinet Mountains Wilderness are the most insidious.
According to MMC’s plan, the mine operation would significantly degrade over 18,000 acres of threatened grizzly habitat, much of it currently under federal protection as Bear Management Units designed to prevent further demise of this fragile population.
The grizzly as a species has already lost 99 percent of its habitat in the contiguous United States. Only about 1,000 grizzlies total remain in the lower 48 states.  Tell KNF Supervisor Paul Bradford and the USFS that it is time to take a stand and refuse to grant Montanore Minerals Corporation a license to kill.  Please sign today!

Threatened trout species of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness and the Kootenai National Forest in Northwest Montana are under siege.  The environmentally destructive Montanore Mine proposal seeks federal permits to consume natural water resources to such a degree that it will take more than 1,000 years for partial recovery to pre-mine levels. Waters in the protected Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, including Rock Creek, Rock Lake, and the east fork of the Bull River, spawning grounds for threatened bull trout, stand to be completely drained, their thriving ecosystems destroyed. The water that would not be consumed by operations at the proposed Montanore Mine would be polluted with life-threatening levels of toxins such as antimony, manganese, and acrylamide.  Help preserve these irreplaceable public resources and dwindling aquatic species by telling EPA and the United States Forest Service to deny operating permits to Montanore Minerals Corp.’s destructive mine proposal. Please sign today!