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Audubon seeks funds to expand Lake Bailey Wildlife Sanctuary

Posted 02/28/2003

HANCOCK -- Copper Country Audubon is seeking funds to acquire 80 acres of dense, forested land adjacent to the club's Lake Bailey Wildlife Sanctuary near the shores of Lake Superior in Keweenaw County. The property is near Eagle Harbor, almost directly below Lookout Mountain (Mt. Baldy). On Saturday, March 1, Copper Country Audubon President Dana Richter will accept the "Chapter of the Year" award to be presented to the club by the Michigan Audubon Society in Lansing. more

Anti-war demonstrators take to streets worldwide

Posted 02/16/2003

HOUGHTON -- In Houghton, about 70 people joined the Walk for Peace, sponsored by the Copper Country Peace Alliance on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003. The Detroit Free Press reports "hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Detroit to sing, shout, cry and call for peace." These protests were in solidarity with an estimated 10 million people marching in New York, Rome, London, Paris, Berlin and many other cities worldwide to protest the United States and Britain's foreign policy against Iraq. Read the Free Press article.

See also a report on the peace rally and march in Helsinki in the English version of Helsingin Sanomat.

A report on Australian protests in Sydney is on the BBC News.

See remarks by Sen. Robert Byrd to the U.S. Senate on Feb. 12, 2003: "Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences" on Sen. Byrd's Website.

Conservancy seeks funds for Bete Grise South

Posted 02/14/2003

MARQUETTE -- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) could purchase about 1,000 acres at Bete Grise South to preserve delicate wetland habitat and Lake Superior shoreline if funding becomes available soon. However, landowner International Paper/Lake Superior Land Co. (IP/LSLC) has told TNC that the deal is contingent on IP/LSLC's receiving a DEQ permit for a road and bridge to access a proposed residential development. The permit, which the DEQ denied in July 2000, is expected to be issued on Feb. 14, 2003, despite objections of local residents to the applicant's new plans for the road and bridge. more

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