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An update of current events and anticipated timelines 1. The DNR has asked Kennecott to donate 120 acres to the State of
Michigan to offset the use and lease of the 120 acres surrounding the Rock for their mine facilities. This offset would provide like public access that would be given up until the year [...]
Take a moment to view this slideshow of photos of the devastation wrought by the largest nickel mine in the world upon a landscape that was once not too different from the Yellow Dog.
More on Inco & Sudbury:
The Inco Mine at Sudbury, Ontario shows photos of the smelting facility, which is probably the single largest [...]
Efforts to have the Coaster Brook Trout listed as a federally endangered species could pay off by September. Coaster Brook Trout are a population of Brookies that are much larger than average and spend most of their lives in the open waters of Lake Superior, only returning to rivers to spawn. For more information read [...]
The results are in from the public voting for the Save The Wild UP Video Challenge.
Drum Roll Please…
The Grand Prize Winner with 1907 votes is Josh Leo for his Video titled “Sulfide Mining Will Damage Michigan“. Prizes for the Grand Prize Winner include $2500 & a holiday package in the Huron Mountains of the Upper [...]
In his op-ed in the Detroit Free Press, State Rep. Tom Casperson (who has represented Michigan’s 108th district in the Upper Peninsula since 2002 and is a member of the Tourism, Forestry and Outdoor Recreation Committee) holds up jobs that would potentially created by the proposed Kennecott Eagle Mine and paints the venture [...]
Private Mining Interests Try to Put a Price on Michigan’s Waterways
by Dick Huey
Amid the ancient forests and rocky outcroppings of the Upper Peninsula’s Yellow Dog Plains, the beautiful Salmon Trout River cuts a serpentine path as it alternates between flat water and cascading rapids on its way to the world’s premiere fresh water body—Lake [...]
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