The development of large scale, cyanide leach gold mining threatens to contaminate and deplete the waters of Buckhorn Mountain for a pickup truck load of gold. The shortsighted large-scale industrialization multinational gold mining threatens the wildlife habitat, natural beauty, sustainable economic development and quality of life in the Okanogan Highlands.

• Shortsighted industrialization of our community would shatter the serenity of the highlands for residents and visitors.
• Water, soil, and air could be contaminated by dust, acid mine drainage, and heavy metal toxins.
• The health of fish, wildlife and vegetation on Buckhorn are threatened.
• The existing tailing impoundment would be expand using the cheapest and unsafe methods.
• Mine shafts would be blasted right into an aquifer.
• Senior water rights could be impaired.
• Public land is privatized and results in the loss of multiple use opportunities.
• Mining companies get rich, pay no royalties for extractions of wealth.
• The public is left to pay the cost to cleanup environmental damage left by the gold industry.