environmental politics
Michigan mine risks Wisconsin tribe’s hallowed sites
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Modern boundaries complicate –and stymie–the Menominee Tribe’s effort to protect burial grounds.
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Wildlife
Court upholds Minnesota tribal fishing rights
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Defendants describe use of secretly recorded conversations, mobile tracking devices, interrogations, undercover surveillance as techniques more familiar to drug traffickers than to fishermen.
Land
In Penokees camp, tribes flex treaty muscles to block mine
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The fight over the fate of a massive iron ore mine has moved this summer from the state Capitol in Madison to the forests of northwestern Wisconsin.
Echo
Professor decolonizes food
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Martin Reinhardt, member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and teacher at Northern Michigan University, is planning a Decolonizing Diet Project, where he and a group will only eat food that was available 300 years ago in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The project officially starts spring 2012, but Reinhardt is already collecting wild foods and developing recipes. He’s made wild rice milk and pectin, gathered cranberries, leeks and ferns and been hunting to stock his kitchen. Reinhardt has already tried out the decolonized diet with a week of eating indigenous foods.
Land
Fresh funds fuel phragmite fight
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Phragmites grow aggressively out-competing natives like bulrushes, cattails and sage plants and now wetland managers want it eradicated and replaced by native species.
Water
Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines
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It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.
Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.
Water
Smart buoys help brace Great Lakes for environmental challenges
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Lake Erie is the first of the Great Lakes getting connected to the internet with a series of offshore “smart” buoys.
And it’s not just for sending texts on the water.
Echo
Michigan bald eagles soar back from near-extinction
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It’s a success story for the country’s national bird, which was nearly wiped off the map by the 1960s after generations of human interference.
Solutions
First-ever transit service hovercraft in North America plans to hit the water in summer 2023
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More modern versions have switched to a more conventional diesel engine, much quieter and much more fuel- efficient.
Echo
Study finds lake cleanups help house values recover
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A $34.9 million cleanup of heavily contaminated Muskegon Lake and White Lake in West Michigan is estimated to have recovered $16.4 million in lost housing value for nearby homeowners.