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HELENA 鈥?Advocates are asking the U.S. Forest Service to take action to prevent mining in public lands near the Smith River.On Tuesday morning, members of the Smith River Public Lands Coalition met outside the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest offices in Helena. They delivered what they called a boatload of signatures 鈥?around stanley cup 10,000 鈥?on a petition calling on USFS to put a mineral withdrawal on forest lands near the planned Black Butte Copper mining project in Meagher County. People are always asking us, What can we do to help protect the Smith River from future mining said Scott Bosse, Northern Rockies director for the environmental group American Rivers. And that s why we offered this petition to those people, and we are going to let the decision makers know what they think by delivering them. Bosse said the majority of the signers are from Montana. Jonathon Ambarian The USFS can ask the Bureau of Land Management to institute a withdrawal, which would prevent new mine claims on the affected ar stanley cups ea for up to 20 years.A withdrawal would not affect the Black Butte mine itself, which is on private land. However, advocates said theyre stanley cup concerned t Uhbe House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress
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