Category Archives: Events/Public Meetings

For information related to community or statewide events concerning the protection or conservation of the UP. Examples include outdoor recreation, county/state/municipal meetings, organizational meetings.

Humboldt Mill Written Comment

Written Comments:
Can be mailed to the DEQ at deq-kennecott-humboldt-mill-comments@michigan.gov until December 29th at 5:00pm. If you wish to mail your response, it can be sent to the DEQ at Office of Geological Survey, PO Box 30256, Lansing Michigan 48909-7756. Please Refer to the “DEQ Information” Link below for complete copies of the permit application.
Kennecott Humboldt [...]

Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

The Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve, Downwind Sports, and Students Acting to Save Michigan Water will be hosting the national Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival this November. The festival will be a two night event, November 5th and 6th, in Jamrich 103 on the campus of Northern Michigan University.
The films address a range of [...]

Protect the Earth August 1st and 2nd

Protect the Earth Agenda
Saturday August 1st

Workshops, Dance and Music: Northern MI University, Whitman Building, Whitman Commons (Rooms 122 and 124), and West Science Building, Mead Auditorium, Marquette, MI, 12-4 pm and 6-8 pm (See Details Below)
Workshop Speakers Include, Saturday 12-4 pm, Whitman Building, Whitman  Commons,  Rooms 122 and 124:
Lorraine Rekmans: Serpent River First Nation (Uranium [...]

Fun-raise with SWUP at our Walk/Paddle/Roll Events

Fun-raise with SWUP at our Walk/Paddle/Roll Events
What:  Great Lakes Walk, Paddle, and Roll Fundraising Event
When:     Saturday, August 22, 2009,  10:00 am
Where: Big Bay, MI
For More Information, Contact:
Save the Wild UP             Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
Quentin Sprengelmeyer, 228-4444     Emily Whitacker, 345-9233
Website: savethewildup.org        Website: yellowdogwatershed.org
Join Save the Wild UP, Yellow Dog Watershed [...]

Kirtlands Warbler Survey Scheduled

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 [...]

2009 Indigenous Earth Issues Summit

The Center for Native American Studies is proud to present the second annual NMU Indigenous Earth Issues Summit being held on Monday, April 6, 2009, at the Great Lakes Rooms in the Don H. Bottum University Center at Northern Michigan University. This event is FREE and open to the public!
Registration deadline is Wed., April [...]

Your Water, Your Health March 19th, 6pm-8pm

The Great Lakes Health & Environment Action League (HEAL) invites you to share soup at a forum “Your Water, Your Health,” on Thursday, March 19th, at 7 pm in the Marquette Federation of Women’s Clubs, 104 W Ridge Street (at the corner of Front St.).

For more information, please email:GreatLakesHEAL@gmail.com or visit: greatlakesheal.wordpress.com

The event [...]

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