Open Letter To The DNR: Will They Listen?
CITIZENS SPEAK OUT AS EAGLE MINE REQUESTS ANOTHER MINERAL LEASE TO DIG UP MORE LAND ON THE YELLOW DOG PLAINS Marquette, MI – As the mineral hungry Eagle Mine asks for additional privileges to dig up more land in the Yellow Dog Wilderness, the DNR has an opportunity to show local citizens who they are […]
Easy Ways To Save Water At Home
How To Save Money On Your Water Bill And Help The Planet Too! There are many easy ways to save water at home. Small adjustments in your lifestyle are all you need to do to help save water for the good of the planet and your water bill. How to start? Read on as we […]
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 […]
Marquette Shows It’s Ready For Change
NMU STUDENTS ORGANIZE LOCAL MARCH AS PART OF WORLDWIDE EVENT Marquette, MI – Residents from Marquette and around the U.P. came together to take local action on a global issue today as part of the larger People’s Climate March movement happening around the world. Despite rain and cold weather families and NMU students showed up Sunday September […]
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 […]
Yellow Dog RIVERKEEPER Makes Shocking Discovery
Remote Logging Work Not Adhering to Permit Conditions in an Area Previously Protected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Northern Marquette County, MI – During the week of June 23, 2014, a reconnaissance survey of forest and wetland conditions on the Snowmobile Trail 5 route, aka the Pine Camps route, by the Yellow Dog RIVERKEEPER ® led to a discovery of road construction by Plum Creek Timber Company that did not meet with stated […]
Kill a Wolf, Kill a Culture
Rights of the Ojibwe People Violated in Michigan Wolf Hunt The issue of holding a wolf hunt in Michigan continues to cause heated debate among some Michigan residents, yet many residents do not recognize or understand the grave consequences that this decision holds. The question of a wolf hunt is not simply a matter of […]
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. […]
Paradise Interrupted
Outdated coal-fired power plant a blight on our natural environment in the U.P. Marquette, MI, June 2, 2014 – Good news from Washington today as the Obama administration released a groundbreaking plan with the intent to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by almost a third by the year 2030! This is one of […]
