Buckhorn Bulletin

Newsletter of the Okanogan Highlands Alliance

Winter 2013

• Buckhorn Mine Violates NPDES Permit • Crown’s Appeal of Ecology’s Penalty ~ Postponed Until November 2013 • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Highland Wonders • Crown Proposes to Expand Mine’s Water Rights • Shotcrete Plan Fails Scrutiny • Ecology/ Kinross Parley - Revolving Door • The “No Big Deal” Ore Spill • In Our Backyard • 2012 in Review: Mine Issues •

Fall 2012

• Crown/Kinross Denies Responsibility for Water Problems • No Loophole – Water Right Required • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Highland Wonders • Crown Retaliates • New Discharge Locations • Penalty Appeal • In Our Backyard • Exploration Review Continues

Summer 2012

• Ecology Enforces Clean Water Act • More Enforcement Needed • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Highland Wonders: Indoors Makes Way for Outdoors • Mine Permit Up for Renewal • Actions Taken by Kinross to Maintain and Improve the Capture Zone • The Landslide: Then and Now • In Our Backyard • Exploration Threatens ~ Comments will be Needed

Winter 2012

Buckhorn Mine Violates Water Quality Permit • New Exploration Work Plan Threatens Chesaw and Jackson/Cedar Creek Roadless Area • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Highland Wonders • Kinross Environmental Reporting: Needs Improvement • In Our Backyard • Water Quality Action Alert • Exploration

Summer 2011

• Mudslide Scours Gold Bowl Creek • Water, Water, Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink • Mural Project • In Our Backyard: Volunteers Help OHA Make a Difference • Water Everywhere • Highland Wonders & Local School Workshops • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Lost Lake Restoration

Fall 2011

Water Quality Problems at Buckhorn • Development Rock Reporting Needs Improvement • NPDES Up for Renewal • Mural Project • In Our Backyard: Lost Lake Project Moves Forward • Trouble on the Mountain • Highland Wonders: Successful Summer • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Forest Plan: Action Alert

Spring 2011

• OHA Recommends Plan Modifications • Forest Service Recognizes Connected Actions - will the BLM? • Mine and Exploration Update • Restoration at Lost Lake • Annual Water Quality Review • Highland Wonders • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Mural Project • Annual Membership Meeting

Fall 2010

• Downstream and Downgradient Contaminants Increasing... While Agencies Review Exploration Proposal • Exploration Blues • Highland Wonders • Concerned about the Water • Myers Creek -- On the Mend • Volunteer for OHA • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Action Alert: Exploration

Summer 2010

• Extensive Exploration Proposed • Kinross Wasting Public's Water • Action Alert: Exploration • Herbicide and Lead • Highland Wonders • All is Not Well at the Buckhorn Mine • Lost Lake Journey Begins • Make Yourself Heard • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Action Alert: No Water Quality Regulator at Ecology

Spring 2010

• Out of Adversity Comes Opportunity • Kinross Seeks Substantial Exploration • Lost Lake Wetland: To Be Protected • Annual Monitoring • OHA's New Conservation Coordinator • Membership Meeting • State of the Mountain • Support OHA • Restoration Planning

May 2008

Settlement Details • Impacts Reduced Independent Monitoring with Verification • Additional Wetland and Stream Improvements

Fall 2009

Buckhorn Water Quality Challenges • Violations Continue • Chlorination Follies • Comprehensive Matrix • OHA/Ecology Correspondence • State of the Mountain • Conservation Coordinator

Spring 2009

Water Quality Violation & Penalty • Exploration Comments Needed • OHA's Recommendations

Fall 2008

From Construction to Mining • Pine Chee Wetland, Open to Public Access • OHA Independent Review • OHA Technical Review • Follow the Water • Discharge Deviation • Kinross Mitigation • State of the Mountain • Wetland & Stream Restoration

March 2008

Permit Appeals • Motion for Summary Judgement • Ground Water Flow Model • Surface Water • Ground water Hydrology • Wetlands & Mitigation • Water Quality • Tailings Expansion • From the Pits

Fall 2007

• Okanogan Highlands Nature Bankruptcy Protection Needed • Ecology Issues Permits: • The Water Rights Shell Game: Dewatering Buckhorn Mountain • Degradation NOT in Public Interest: Water Quality Certification • Marias Creek Road Threatened by Mine • Waste Discharge Appeal • A New Sound: What Are Jake Brakes? • Buckhorn Mountain Project Lacks Adequate Mitigation • Living on Buckhorn • From The Pits

Spring 2007

• OHA Appeals Forest Service EIS for Road Access and Other Facilities • Ecology to Issue Water Rights: Places Kinross Interests Over Public Interest • Follow the Waste - Infiltration Gallery • Mitigation or Lack thereof • Public Trust Doctrine

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