Postive outcome after a few nail-biting years%3A In August 1996%2C a momentous agreement was announced that stopped the threat of the New World Mine being built on the doorstep to Yellowstone. Taking part in the signing%2C witnessed by a few hundred people who looked on%2C were Mike Clark an next to him%2C left to right%2C%3A President Bill Clinton%2C Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley%2C Katie McGinty%2C director of The White House Office on Environmental Quality%2C and Ian Bayer%2C CEO of Canadian mining company%2C Hemlo Gold that owned the mine through corporate giant%2C Noranda. Photo courtesy Mike Clark%252FMSU Library Special Collections
Postive outcome after a few nail-biting years%3A In August 1996%2C a momentous agreement was announced that stopped the threat of the New World Mine being built on the doorstep to Yellowstone. Taking part in the signing%2C witnessed by a few hundred people who looked on%2C were Mike Clark an next to him%2C left to right%2C%3A President Bill Clinton%2C Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley%2C Katie McGinty%2C director of The White House Office on Environmental Quality%2C and Ian Bayer%2C CEO of Canadian mining company%2C Hemlo Gold that owned the mine through corporate giant%2C Noranda. Photo courtesy Mike Clark%252FMSU Library Special Collections