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Okanogan Highlands Alliance
Working to protect the Okanogan Highlands from large-scale cyanide-leach gold mining since 1992
OHA continues to press on, working to:
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Minimize watershed impacts associated with the Buckhorn gold mine operations and exploration
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Continuously improve the ecological health of the Okanogan Highlands
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Increase community awareness and involvement in watershed issues
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Ground and surface water downgradient from the mine are being degraded by failure of the mine’s capture zone. Water leaching through development (waste) rock piles, especially in the spring, has increased pollutants in Gold Bowl Creek. Meanwhile, the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit is up for renewal... Read More |
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During the summer, a wildlife-friendly fence went up around the Lost Lake wetland. The fence is now protecting the Lost Lake wetland habitat from trampling by cattle, while allowing fawns, mature deer and other native mammals to pass. Sunny Okanogan Fencing has completed the fence, both along collaborating landowner parcels on the east side of the lake, and in the National Forest south of the lake... Read more |
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A community-level transformation... The Okanogan Highlands Alliance board and staff are delighted to celebrate OHA's 20th anniversary, and share appreciation for the natural environment, by commissioning Andy Eccleshall to paint mountains, forest, wetlands, flora and fauna of the area. The murals are painted on the Community Cultural Center exterior walls in downtown Tonasket... Read more |
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On Friday, March 2nd, Roger Christophersen, Wildlife Biologist for the North Cascades National Park Service, will share stories and information about the amazing adaptations and natural history of our local bat species... Read More |
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