This fall the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve successfully completed our bi-annual survey of the Yellow Dog River and Salmon Trout River. We would like to give a huge thank-you to our amazing volunteers who donated their time and have been dedicated to our cause. The volunteers collected data at 17 sites along the Yellow Dog
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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,
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December 20th, 2011 Presented By: Julie Christiansen Kennecott’s “Model” Mine Tests Find Significant Toxins Flambeau Mining Co., a subsidiary of Kennecott Mineral Co., is showing high levels of toxic pollutants, 14 years after mining operations ceased. Flambeau was an open pit mine that operated from 1993-1997 and produced 181,000 tons of copper, 3.3 million
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October 21, 2009 at 7:30pm- The Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve will hold their next Board meeting in Marquette at the Marquette Federation of Women’s Clubs at 104 W. Ridge St. The group will provide brief updates on activities as well as a presentation and discussion on the Clean Water Act. Refreshments will be provided and
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