This month at camp has been very interesting. We had 10 people at camp for a week and our friends from Minnesota had to go home and take care of their things. One of them stayed with his dog Yucca, he is a very good watch dog and he listens to Micah very respectfully. Art came to help us for a few weeks and he has to go do a 13 month walk in October. Michelle and Tom also joined us for a couple of weeks and they are really good fisherman, we had fish fry a few times when they were here. They also have beautiful and well-behaved children that spent a couple of days with us to and we couldn’t ask for better people to come out to camp with us.
My 17 yr. old daughter Shauna, my 16 yr. old son Chris, my 6 yr. old son Virgil, my 1 & 1/2 yr. old son Robert have been staying at camp with me. I have only went home 4 days out of the month but get to see them often. Virgil has been staying at camp with us the most. He loves it here, the things he wants to do the most everyday is fish and split wood:) Jerry, Robert’s dad brings my children back and forth from camp as much as he can. He helps us get wood, water, and food every few days. We are going to get married in October. Continue reading →
A few of us attended the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve’s annual meeting tonight. It was a lot of fun. The UP’s very own Gold Mine Girls and Michael Waite opened for Drew Nelson. The concert and song writing workshop were co-sponsored by the Peter White Public Library.
Drew encouraged us all to keep fighting and said something like, my grandpa use to tell me that there are things that you do, but you don’t always know what your ‘do’ does, so keep doing it. He assured us that all of our efforts to protect the Yellow Dog and Eagle Rock and to protect the water have ripple effects that we may not realize.
The Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve (YDWP) is an environmental organization comprised of grassroots individuals who take environmental ethics to heart. They focus on informing the public about the watershed, conducting sound science, and protecting the resources from threats like sulfide mining. Emily Whittaker, director of the YDWP encouraged everyone to keep visiting our public lands and the rivers on the Yellow Dog Plains.
Click here to read more about the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve or to donate to help them continue their much needed efforts on the Yellow Dog Plains
Click here to listen to Drew Nelson sing Eagle Rock (song for the people)
Opening Act: Gold Mine Girls
Opening Act Michael Waite
Drew Nelson
NORTHWOODS NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OUTING
Proposed Kennecott haul road and North Country Trail
Michigamme Highlands, Marquette County, Michigan
Saturday, August 28, 10 AM Eastern (9 AM Central).
Leaders:
Emily Whittaker, Executive Director, Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
Steve Garske, Invasive Plant Specialist, GLIFWC
This trip will begin near the southern end of the proposed mining haul road through the scenic Michigamme Highlands. We’ll drive the southern 2/3 of this gravel road. At the north end of the road we’ll take a hike along a seldom-visited and very scenic portion of the North Country Trail. This trail runs through an amazing variety of natural habitats ranging from open rock outcrops to northern hardwood forest and upland white pine and cedar. At the far end of the trail, we’ll visit a forest of red oak and white pine, where a plant never before seen on an NNPS trip grows in perfusion! This area is also the heart of Michigan’s moose range, so there is a (small) chance that we could see a moose. This trip will also provide a chance to see a little of what the big mining companies are planning for this still-isolated and wild part of the UP. Continue reading →
24 August 2010 Last updated at 07:18 ET
The tribes say the mining project will destroy their livelihood
India has rejected controversial plans by mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa.
The project had breached environmental protection acts and raised concerns for the rights of local tribes, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
Vedanta’s other ventures in Orissa were being investigated separately, he said.
The company has yet to comment on the decision. It says it will bring jobs to the area – tribespeople say the plans will destroy their sacred land.
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