Postive outcome after a few nail-biting years: In August 1996, 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, witnessed by a few hundred people who looked on, were Mike Clark an next to him, left to right,: President Bill Clinton, Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley, Katie McGinty, director of The White House Office on Environmental Quality, and Ian Bayer, CEO of Canadian mining company, Hemlo Gold that owned the mine through corporate giant, Noranda. Photo courtesy Mike Clark/MSU Library Special Collections
Postive outcome after a few nail-biting years: In August 1996, 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, witnessed by a few hundred people who looked on, were Mike Clark an next to him, left to right,: President Bill Clinton, Yellowstone Superintendent Mike Finley, Katie McGinty, director of The White House Office on Environmental Quality, and Ian Bayer, CEO of Canadian mining company, Hemlo Gold that owned the mine through corporate giant, Noranda. Photo courtesy Mike Clark/MSU Library Special Collections