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Air Pollution Comment Period and Public Hearing
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Division is looking at a new Permit to Install (PTI) application from Rio Tinto for operations at Eagle Mine on the Yellow Dog Plains. Rio Tinto believes that due to the reconfiguring of their plant and the move of the original underground cement batch plant and associated…
YDWP Supports Keep Michigan Wolves Protected Campaign
Keep Michigan Wolves Protected is a coalition of conservation groups, animal welfare organizations, wildlife professionals, hunters, ranchers and other Michigan citizens working to protect Michigan’s fragile wolf population. For about the last 50 years wolves have been fully protected in Michigan and have been on the Endangered Species List for close to 40 years. With the…
County Road 595 Project Kicked to the Curb
On January 3, 2013 Susan Hedman, the USEPA Regional Administrator for Region 5, received a letter in her Chicago office from Dan Wyant, Director of the MDEQ. In the letter, Wyant states, “This letter serves as formal notification that due to the short time frame allowed by statute and the complexity of the issues remaining,…
NMU Academic Service Learning Project
Throughout the fall of 2012, a class of English Composition students from Northern Michigan University engaged the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve through an Academic Service Learning Project. With their professor, Rochelle Dale, the students worked on essays revolving around the idea of wilderness preservation. To help get their ideas started, the YDWP provided the necessary background…
EPA Issues Decision on CR 595
December 5, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday, December 4th, that they are both removing and upholding objections to the permit for County Road 595. The objection over whether the Marquette County Road Commission did an adequate job analyzing the alternative routes was removed. The objection over whether the Road Commission supplied an…
Wayne Snyder Donates proceeds from Coaster Brook Trout Prints
Wayne Snyder is an American author, photographer, illustrator, painter, poet, and conservationist, and has written a number of books about the world of fly fishing. He has written three books entitled: The Golden Age (Rochester Media, 2010), Why I Fish (self-published) and Rivers Of No Return (Rochester Media, 2012). Last year he created a painting entiteled “Isle…
Strong Public Opposition to CR 595 at Hearing
On Tuesday night atNorthernMichiganUniversity, the U.S. EPA held a public hearing at the request of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to hear comments about the EPA’s objections to issuing a permit to build County Road 595. County Road 595 is a project that has been put forth by the Marquette County Road Commission. The…
Salmon-Trout Stream Monitoring Looking for Volunteers
The Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve is looking for people who love the outdoors and are interested in volunteering and learning more about stream ecology. Volunteers will help collect water quality information for the Salmon-Trout River alongside YDWP staff this fall and no prior experience is necessary. This project is part of the Volunteer Stream Monitoring…
Michigan Court of Appeals to Hear Mine Case
The Michigan Court of Appeals decided this week to hear arguments regarding a 2007 decision by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to issue mining and groundwater discharge permits to Kennecott Minerals for Eagle Mine. The case was brought forward by the original petitioners, which includes the National Wildlife Federation, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Yellow…
Public Hearing to Accept Comments on Wetland Fill Permit Application
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a public hearing taking place at Northern Michigan University to accept comments from all those concerned that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is considering issuing a permit that would allow the Marquette County Roads Commission to fill wetlands for proposed County Road 595. As many of you know,…