From: Grace L Whipple <info@midasgoldcomments.com>

Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:59 PM

To: Support Stibnite; jay.natoli@gmail.com; natalie

Subject: Native Valley County Resident Wants to Move the Stibnite Gold Project Forward

Payette National Forest Supervisor,

I am native to Valley County and I am proud to welcome Midas Gold Idaho into our state and proud to support the Stibnite Gold Project. I hope you will take the time to consider my comments on why you should move to permit the project.

It pleases me that Midas Gold wants to take responsibility and clean up the damage left behind by mining operations in the early 20th Century even though the company was not involved in any of the previous activity at the site. Midas Gold has a plan to reunite salmon and trout with their spawning grounds for the first time in 80 years. Their plan for the East Fork of the South Fork of the Salmon River over the backfilled Yellow Pine pit will recreate natural conditions as close as possible. They plan to provide permanent access to approximately 25 miles of perennial stream and 6 miles of anadromous fish spawning habitat, and the company has agreed to install a temporary artificial fish passageway that will allow fish to swim past the old mining pit before mining even begins.

The comment period for the project was already extended once. The U.S. Forest Service has given the public more than adequate time to comment, plus tools that make reviewing the document easy and a virtual meeting room to make information more digestible. It is with this knowledge that I encourage the U.S. Forest Service to continue to move the project forward and permit the site using alternative 2 as the guide.

Please keep my comments in mind,

Grace L Whipple


Name: Grace L Whipple
Email: glwgrace@gmail.com
City: Cascade
State: ID