YELLOW PINE, IDAHO – The deep forests and steep canyons of this state are no strangers to confrontations between the prodigious revenue earned and massive ecological harms from hard rock mining. Now a plan to reopen a big, old, and long shuttered hard rock mine on federal land in a sensitive watershed near this town […]
Author Archives: Katherine Ergil
Kat is a reporting intern at Circle of Blue and a student at Northwestern University. She is a fourth-year student studying Earth & Planetary Sciences and Journalism with a strong interest in building an understanding of hydrologic systems to report on environmental, water and climate change stories.