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Photo Friday: Chicago’s Loop from space
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Land
This category encompasses land-based issues. It is further segregated with tags into such issues as farm, urban redevelopment or decay, forest, mining.
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When rock talks, science listens
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Ohio study of fossils in millstones give clues to their origin. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Fossils
New book details Duluth/Superior street car system
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The physical remnants of this era are gone, but author Aaron Isaacs got his hands on an impressive wealth of research materials rich in interesting details, stories and images. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Art, Mass transit, transportation, Urban
What’s in a name?
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What was the former emperor of France doing in Northern New York, about an hour’s drive south of the St. Lawrence River? Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Parks
When fire changes the landscape
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Two years after the Duck Lake fire swept through 21,000 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, experts this spring will assess the need for new plantings to restore the primarily jack pine forest. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Wildfire
Arsonist gets 5 years for Superior National Forest fires
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejects bid for a shorter sentence for man who confessed to setting nine fires on federal and state forestland. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Green Gavel, Law, Wildfire
New trees of all types to replace damaged ashes
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will award 21 cities and environmental groups between $800 and $20,000 to help regrow urban forests damaged by the emerald ash borer plague. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Catch of the Day, Forests, Urban
U.S. wilderness areas study includes 16 in Michigan
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The Sierra Club would like the Trap Hills part of the U.P.’s Ottawa National Forest to be added as a wildernss area, but public land agencies say they have no plans for major changes in Michigan. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, National Parks, Parks
Jobs in timbering, wood products go begging
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Logging and wood product companies are searching for skilled employees with many experienced foresters and other Northern Michigan workers retiring. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Land, Capital News Service, Forests
Emerald Ash borer moving on to new target in Ohio
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Ohio scientists say they’ve found evidence that the insect has made its way to a new host: the white fringetree. Continue Reading →