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National Trails Day is June 6th!
PLEASE get out there and
help improve or build trails in your area! Contact local trail
organizations and ask what you can do. Make this an annual
project for you and your family or organization.
Some local trails:
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North Country Trail, Peter Wolf Chapter (Western UP)
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North Country Trail, NCTHC (Central UP)
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North Country Trail, Grand Marais Chapter, UP
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North Country Trail, HSS, (Eastern UP)
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Noquemanon Trail
Network: in Marquette County
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Pictured Rock National Park Trails need volunteers
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Keweenaw Trails:
Silent Sport Network in Western UP
ALSO, check your local State & National Parks Trails
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Come Paddle With Save the Wild UP
"Paddle Independence" will take place
Saturday, June 6 on beautiful Lake
Independence in Big Bay. Please paddle with us if you can, but if
graduations and weddings are keeping you on the road, you can join us in
the fundraising effort. Log onto
http://www.savethewildup.org/
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The public is invited to a presentation on
invasive plants of the Ottawa National Forest.
When: Tuesday, June 9,
8:30 AM central time.
Where: Ottawa National Forest Visitor Center in Watersmeet, Michigan. At
the intersection of US 2 and US 45.
What: Slide show and live samples of invasive plants that are harming
natural areas in the Northwoods. Invasive plants to be covered include
garlic mustard, Japanese barberry, exotic honeysuckle, exotic buckthorn,
purple loosestrife, Eurasian water-milfoil, European swamp thistle, and
lesser-known new invaders such as garden valerian and wild chervil. The
emphasis will be terrestrial plants.
After the presentation everyone is invited to come on a field tour of
some invasive plant infestations in Gogebic County. You will need to
arrange for your own transportation, however.
Please come, learn how to identify the worst of the invasive plants, and
start reporting new infestations!
Ian Shackleford, Botanist
Ottawa National Forest
E 6248 US 2, Ironwood, MI 49938
(906) 932-1330 ext. 331, ishackleford@fs.fed.us
The Peter Wolfe Chapter of the North
Country Trail Offers Another Volunteer Adventure!
The NCTA is looking for volunteers to help build a bridge on a trail section that crosses the Plumbago Creek in Baraga County. Work will begin
June 24, 2009, and run through the 30th.
For more information, go to their website at
www.northcountrytrail.org/pwf
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Michigan Green Chemistry Awards Program : |
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The Michigan Green Chemistry Awards Program is a program
established by the Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality to recognize innovations in green chemistry.
Entries due by July 15, 2009:
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Celebrate Lake Superior Day
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Lake
Superior Day was started in the early 1990s to highlight the
importance of this great water body to the basin’s environment
and economy. The Lake Superior Binational Forum promotes this
basin-wide event to highlight the special connections people have to
this unique water body.
This year the theme “Let’s Go Fly a Kite!” symbolizes clean energy
sources such as wind power. Organize your group or family to fly a
kite at your favorite beach or park on July 19.
Click here
for more information and downloadable materials about flying a kite
on Lake Superior Day.
Fun on the Plains
Protect the Earth Gathering is set for
August 1-2 in Marquette and on the Yellow
Dog Plains. Workshops, food, speakers, drum ceremony and walk to Eagle
Rock.
yellowdogsummer.wordpress.com
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Sierra Club Photo Contest Celebrates the
Yellow Dog Watershed!
The Central Upper Peninsula Group of the Sierra Club is sponsoring a
photo contest to celebrate the beauty of the Yellow Dog River Watershed.
Do you have favorite photographs of the area? Enter them in the contest
for a chance to win prizes and help make everyone aware how special this
area is. Enter by August 28, 2009
For Information Click Here
UPPCO Land Sales May Put Former U.P. Recreation Areas Off-Limits
In early December, 2005, U.P. residents were startled to hear 7,300
acres of recreational lands currently open to public use were being
put on the block by their owner, the Upper Peninsula Power Company (UPPCO).
According to a website set up by UPPCO to inform the public about the
proposed sales, 2,300 of those acres are in Alger County, 2,800 in Ontonagon
Co., 500 in Marquette/Delta Counties, and 1,700 acres of land in Baraga
Co. The acreage in question abuts the company’s hydroelectric plants
at Au Train, Boney Falls, Bond Falls, Cataract, Prickett Dam, and the
Victoria Flowage. By the end of December, 2,720 acres had already been
sold to a private developer.
A group of people concerned about the sale of this land has been formed.
The Upper Peninsula Public Access Coalition (UPPAC) has created an on-line
petition drive requesting legislators call for a new environmental impact
study of those areas. To sign the petition or learn more about this
issue, go to UPPAC’s new website at
www.uppac.com.
UPEC will continue to stay on top of this issue and report what is going
on as we learn more about the sale of these unique public lands.
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