Eagle Mine Truck Accident on County Road 550
December 15, 2014 Marquette, MI – In the early morning hours of Saturday December 13, 2014 a truck hauling nickel and copper ore from Eagle Mine facility on the Yellow Dog Plains left the roadway and overturned in a ditch. Thankfully, no one was injured, no other vehicles were involved in the accident, and Marquette […]
A Thank You
JOIN A YDWP VOLUNTEER AS SHE WADES INTO THE YELLOW DOG RIVER By Xavier Donajkowski As I waded into the Yellow Dog River in chest waders in mid-fall, the rain rolled off my waterproof jacket sleeves. The cold drizzle made my lips shiver and my hands slip on the bucket full of river water, leaves, […]
REFLECTIONS OF PAST AND FUTURE ON THE YELLOWDOG WATERSHED
REFLECTIONS OF PAST AND FUTURE ON THE YELLOWDOG WATERSHED by Rochelle Dale Octobers on the Yellow Dog always remind me of Aunt Mildred and my mom and dad. They would have been in their seventies at the time, back in the early 1990s. We were driving along the Toboggan road that runs parallel with the […]
Eagle Mine Road Construction Damages Local Environment
YELLOW DOG WATERSHED PRESERVE TAKES ACTION TO PROTECT OUR WATERWAYS THREATENED BY NEW ROAD CONSTRUCTION Water springs feeding into the Salmon Trout River have been damaged as a direct result by the creation of the haul road for Lundin Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog Plains. On August 4, 2014 the Michigan Department of Environmental […]
Invaders
COMMUNITY WIDE EFFORTS COMBAT INVASIVE SPECIES! By Rochelle Dale Marquette, MI – We never really decided on a name for ourselves: Thistle Exterminators, Thistle Destroyers, The Thistle Queens, to name a few. We also never really thought we would still be working on this project. In 2009, former YDWP director, Emily Whittaker, received a grant […]
A Rare Song
In the Yellow Dog Watershed: A Rare Song By Rochelle Dale Share this early morning journey to the Yellow Dog Plains in search of a mysterious bird… I stuffed my picnic breakfast and snacks into my pack with the binoculars and camera, grabbed my hiking boots and thermos of coffee and ran to the truck. […]
