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Lansing hearings put U.P. wilderness on trial

Written by LAWRENCE COSENTINO
Wednesday, 21 May 2008

On the morning of April 28, a roomful of lawyers in the basement of Lansing’s vast Constitution Hall blinked at slides of a snow-covered cabin next to a woodland stream and beaver pond.

Rico Torreano, a burly corrections officer at Marquette Branch Prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, took the witness stand to open an epic sequence of hearings on the proposed Eagle Mine, set to dig in about 25 miles west of Marquette and a mile away from his home.

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