Breaking: Graphite Mining Project! The scoping comment period for this project, originally scheduled from April 9, 2025 – May 9, 2025, has been extended through May 16, 2025.  Send your comments about this project to the Forest Service today! Forward this information and tell your friends and family! click link below to find out more.

Click HERE to review all the documents for this proposed graphite project #67838

• Comment page portal https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=67838
• Reading Room page https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//ReadingRoom?Project=67838

WHAT CAN I DO?  COMMENT!

Contact the Forest Service today. Use the QR code or the address below. (Phone calls or talking to a Forest Service employee do NOT count. Petitions and form letters do NOT count.)

You can be brief, but include the following –

• Name and address
• Who you are and why you care about this project and the Black Hills
• The name of the project (Rochford Mineral Exploratory Drilling Project)
• Say why you oppose the Rochford Mineral Exploratory Drilling Project.  Use your own words (don’t copy ours).
• Say that you want the Forest Service to do an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for this project

Comment online here –   or scan the QR Code with your smart phone.

Or mail your comments to Mystic District Ranger Office, ATTN: Rochford Mineral Exploratory Drilling Project, 8220 S. Mt Rushmore Rd., Rapid City, SD 57702.

• Comment page portal https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//CommentInput?Project=67838
• Reading Room page https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//ReadingRoom?Project=67838

For more information about this project click HERE.

Graphite Mining

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