Nature Mapping - A Michigan Initiative for Wildlife Inventory Conservation Management
What: Nature Mapping Scoping Meeting
When: July 16, 2008 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: Northern Michigan University
Lake Ontario Room
University Center
1401 Presque Isle Avenue
Marquette, MI 49855
You are invited to a session hosted by the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Inc in the scoping and building of a Michigan [...]
Eagle Rock to the Bridge
Fundraising on Foot
Margaret Comfort of Bourbonnais, Illinois along with other dedicated individuals, hopes to raise funds and bring added attention to the threat of metallic sulfide mining and uranium mining in the UP by walking from the proposed Eagle Project site on the Yellow Dog Plains in northwest Marquette County to [...]
School: Leland Public School
Introduced By: Kenyon McFarlane and Sarah Jane Crimmins
Grade: 9
A bill to place a ban on metallic sulfide mining throughout the state of Michigan.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Section 1: This bill shall apply to all persons/companies in the state of Michigan.
Section 2: Persons/companies shall be defined as all businesses, corporations, [...]
Date: June 5th, 2008
Time: 7pm
Place: Peter White Public Library-Dandelion Cottage Room, Marquette, MI
Information about the federal Kirtland's Warbler Survey Program will be given along with maps of jackpine stands and survey information. The survey will be focusing on singing males. Christie Deloria Sheffield, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist and Kirtland's Warbler [...]
February 29, 2008 – 5:27 pm
The following excerpt is from a Feb. 28 CBC news story, click here for the whole story
"Ottawa city council is urging Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to temporarily ban uranium prospecting, exploration and mining in eastern Ontario and the Ottawa River watershed.
The council voted 18-1 Wednesday in favour of a motion calling on the province to [...]
February 6, 2008 – 5:39 pm
From the New York Times:
The battle over Rio Tinto intensified earlyWednesday when BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company, increased its takeover offer to about $147 billion after a Chinese rival bought a stake last week.
BHP onWednesday offered 3.4 of its shares for each share in the London-based Rio Tinto, the world’s third-largest mining company, [...]
January 22, 2008 – 2:06 pm
The Center for Native American Studies and the Environmental Science Program at Northern Michigan University are seeking presentation proposals for the 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit to be held at NMU April 22-23.
The Summit will function as a call to action on Indigneous environmental issues in the Great Lakes area, on Turtle Island and around [...]
