Comments for Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog Our Water..Our Legacy..Our Responsibility Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Petitioners Appeal Court Decision by Julie Meyer http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/12/12/petitioners-appeal-court-decision/comment-page-1/#comment-2902 Julie Meyer Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:52:44 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=627#comment-2902 This project offers the possibility of short term benefits to a very few local employees. The long term, unconscionable effect comes in the form of sulfuric acid drainage into some of the cleanest fresh water in the world. I appreciate the efforts of the coalition fighting to prevent a mine that should have never been granted one permit. Please let me know how I can support the new appeal. This project offers the possibility of short term benefits to a very few local employees. The long term, unconscionable effect comes in the form of sulfuric acid drainage into some of the cleanest fresh water in the world. I appreciate the efforts of the coalition fighting to prevent a mine that should have never been granted one permit. Please let me know how I can support the new appeal.

]]> Comment on MDEQ Decision Upheld by Judge by David Klotz http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/12/02/mdeq-decision-upheld-by-judge/comment-page-1/#comment-2748 David Klotz Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:12:31 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=618#comment-2748 Unfortunatly this Judge cares little for environmental concerns. I am a member of the Anglers of the Ausable, FFF, TU, and the Sierra Club. We went through a similar frustrating and lengthy court case involving Kennecott Eagle Minerals. Same basic results, drilling occurred within feet of the south branch of the Ausable river. Their access roads have disturbed the integrety of the land in the Mason tract and have forever changed the environment in the area. Efforts need to be focused on Kennecott Eagle Minerals and their ability to obtain land and/or mineral rights. Especially on environmentally fragile areas which will suffer permanent damage or destruction. Hopefully the trout will not be seriously impacted by this thoughtless decision. The DEQ and the MDNR have clearly let us down again to say nothing of our court system protecting our fragile and declining environment. We feel your Pain and share your dissappointment. Regards, David Klotz Unfortunatly this Judge cares little for environmental concerns. I am a member of the Anglers of the Ausable, FFF, TU, and the Sierra Club. We went through a similar frustrating and lengthy court case involving Kennecott Eagle Minerals. Same basic results, drilling occurred within feet of the south branch of the Ausable river. Their access roads have disturbed the integrety of the land in the Mason tract and have forever changed the environment in the area.

Efforts need to be focused on Kennecott Eagle Minerals and their ability to obtain land and/or mineral rights. Especially on environmentally fragile areas which will suffer permanent damage or destruction. Hopefully the trout will not be seriously impacted by this thoughtless decision. The DEQ and the MDNR have clearly let us down again to say nothing of our court system protecting our fragile and declining environment.

We feel your Pain and share your dissappointment.

Regards,
David Klotz

]]> Comment on More Protected Land in the Watershed by Elliott Kasprzak http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/11/21/more-protected-land-in-the-watershed/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 Elliott Kasprzak Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:56:12 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=615#comment-2596 This is AWESOME news! Thank you all so much for your tireless efforts to preserve such a special place! This is AWESOME news! Thank you all so much for your tireless efforts to preserve such a special place!

]]> Comment on More Protected Land in the Watershed by Lynn S. http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/11/21/more-protected-land-in-the-watershed/comment-page-1/#comment-2593 Lynn S. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:15:10 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=615#comment-2593 Thank you so much. What a treasure to leave to the future generations. Thank you so much. What a treasure to leave to the future generations.

]]> Comment on Copperwood Permit Application Submitted by Devin http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/10/06/copperwood-permit-application-submitted/comment-page-1/#comment-1887 Devin Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:05:03 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=604#comment-1887 This has got to stop, nothing is sacred anymore, these same people would drill their own ancestors bones for anything they could get. This is why i'm moving back to michigan to fight these corporate monsters and protect one of the truly unique places on this earth. Also to fight a state government that is selling its state to the highest bidder faster than it can realize the effects. This has got to stop, nothing is sacred anymore, these same people would drill their own ancestors bones for anything they could get. This is why i’m moving back to michigan to fight these corporate monsters and protect one of the truly unique places on this earth. Also to fight a state government that is selling its state to the highest bidder faster than it can realize the effects.

]]> Comment on Groups Seeks Motion to Halt Mine by Ninna Denny http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/09/06/groups-seeks-motion-to-halt-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-1762 Ninna Denny Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:55:51 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=588#comment-1762 What does the Rio Tinto board think of the potential water and air pollution caused by the sulfide mine? Is the project worth the effects of the pollution? What does the Rio Tinto board think of the potential water and air pollution caused by the sulfide mine? Is the project worth the effects of the pollution?

]]> Comment on Groups Seeks Motion to Halt Mine by Lynn S. http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/09/06/groups-seeks-motion-to-halt-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-1740 Lynn S. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:24:47 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=588#comment-1740 Good Luck to you all. I know jobs vs. environment is a hard sell in this economy. Future thinking is out for immediate gratification. Rio Tinto, if I am not mistaken, is a Malaysian company and so the income generated by this spoilage may not even stay in the United States. Where are these minerals going? Are the funds generated by their sale going to stay in the UP? If not, to me, this should be a violation of our national security; selling of our limited natural resources for another countries economic gain. Good Luck to you all. I know jobs vs. environment is a hard sell in this economy. Future thinking is out for immediate gratification.
Rio Tinto, if I am not mistaken, is a Malaysian company and so the income generated by this spoilage may not even stay in the United States. Where are these minerals going? Are the funds generated by their sale going to stay in the UP? If not, to me, this should be a violation of our national security; selling of our limited natural resources for another countries economic gain.

]]> Comment on Help Us Win $5,000! by steven lalioff http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/04/21/help-us-win-5000/comment-page-1/#comment-1624 steven lalioff Fri, 13 May 2011 13:32:25 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=564#comment-1624 Dear Friends, I only just received the notice of the $5000 opportunity via postcard yesterday, May 12th...8 days after the deadline. I assume this contest is over. I aleart you to this so you might research why the mailing was delayed or went out too late. My best, Steven Dear Friends,

I only just received the notice of the $5000 opportunity via postcard yesterday, May 12th…8 days after the deadline. I assume this contest is over. I aleart you to this so you might research why the mailing was delayed or went out too late.

My best,
Steven

]]> Comment on About Us by Featured Story | newwarriorsforearth http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/about-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1616 Featured Story | newwarriorsforearth Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:17:21 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?page_id=63#comment-1616 [...] up a map of her then-home state of Michigan and looked for green open spaces with no roads. TheYellow Dog Plains of the Upper Peninsula caught her eye, and then her imagination. But it wasn’t until the age of [...] [...] up a map of her then-home state of Michigan and looked for green open spaces with no roads. TheYellow Dog Plains of the Upper Peninsula caught her eye, and then her imagination. But it wasn’t until the age of [...]

]]> Comment on Update of the Woodland Road by Marc Van Grinsven http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/2011/01/20/update-of-the-woodland-road/comment-page-1/#comment-1457 Marc Van Grinsven Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:30:19 +0000 http://www.yellowdogwatershed.org/blog/?p=536#comment-1457 I am encouraged to hear from afar that the Haul Rd has yielded to wild lands for now. Having spent a great deal of time on the ground there- in the adventures and oft misadventures of finding Marv's camp- it is known to me that a wild life will survive. And some people may not understand that humans can be wildlife too, but it's true. Participate. The Ishpenopeming highlands, where water comes out of the ground, is the place I learned that. I am celebrating the corridor of woods that will remain rural, wild, and in silence, and the people who retreat there to find it. I am encouraged to hear from afar that the Haul Rd has yielded to wild lands for now. Having spent a great deal of time on the ground there- in the adventures and oft misadventures of finding Marv’s camp- it is known to me that a wild life will survive. And some people may not understand that humans can be wildlife too, but it’s true. Participate. The Ishpenopeming highlands, where water comes out of the ground, is the place I learned that. I am celebrating the corridor of woods that will remain rural, wild, and in silence, and the people who retreat there to find it.

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