Monthly Archives: May 2009

Kirtlands Warbler Survey Scheduled

May 29, 2009 – 12:48 pm

The annual Kirtland’s Warbler singing male survey of the US Fish & Wildlife Service will be conducted June 6th through June 15th for the entire Upper Peninsula.
Interested volunteers for the Yellow Dog Plains survey can contact Nancy Moran by calling the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve at 906-345-9223. Surveyors will meet daily at 7:00 am at [...]

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SWUP is 5 Years Young!

May 19, 2009 – 4:39 pm

Save the Wild U.P. Celebrates 5 years
Group plans summer of fundraising
By CHRISTOPHER DIEM Journal Staff Writer
POSTED: May 14, 2009
MARQUETTE -Members of the environmental group Save the Wild UP are celebrating the organization’s fifth anniversary by enjoying that which they strive to protect – the Upper Peninsula wilderness.
Members and supporters of Save the Wild UP -along [...]

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Coaster Brook Trout Protection Denied by the USFWS

May 18, 2009 – 2:27 pm

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the coaster brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The petition also asked that critical habitat be designated for the species. From the USFWS: “After review of all available scientific and [...]

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Rio Tintos Response to KBICs Letter from the Annual General Meeting in London

May 7, 2009 – 10:22 pm

In April (2009) Lutheran pastor Jon Magnuson, from Marquette, Michigan, and Gabriel Caplett, of Dukes Farm in Skandia, Michigan, attended the Rio Tinto Annual General Meeting to represent citizens from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula who are opposed to a metallic sulfide mine on the Yellow Dog Plains.  One document they delivered to the Rio Tinto Board, [...]

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Mine Engineer Report

May 7, 2009 – 3:41 pm

Please contact your local, state, and federal representatives regaurding this new information which has come to light, and ask the the question, “Is the Eagle Project Idiocy or Outright Fraud.

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Mineral Exploration in Ottawa National Forest

May 6, 2009 – 3:11 pm

Chuck Glossenger’s letter to the editor of the Mining Journal on mineral exploration in the Ottawa Forest.
To the editor:
The Ottawa National Forest in Ironwood is accepting comments during the public input process on whether to grant Kennecott three permits to do exploratory drilling on federal land.
One of their permit requests is the Bates parcel, a [...]

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