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Dept. of Natural Resources KPAC Public Meeting Minutes: Oct. 5, 2004

Posted 11/27/2004 

MARQUETTE --The minutes from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources public meeting on recommendations proposed by the Keweenaw Point Advisory Committee (KPAC) are now available and posted here on Keweenaw Now. At the meeting, which was held on Oct. 5, 2004, in the Mohawk School, DNR officials read and distributed KPAC's recommendations for recreation and resource management of the state's recent Keweenaw Tip purchase of 6,275 acres and asked for public comment. The meeting was well attended by local residents and visitors to the area, who commented on the recommendations for Camping, Maintenance and Enforcement, Motorized Access, Non-Motorized Access, Public Access and Roads, Minimum Impact Zones and Timber Resources. Read the minutes of the public meeting. 
Photo: Ron Yesney, DNR West U.P. recreation specialist, reads KPAC recommendations and asks for public comment at the Oct. 5 public meeting in the Mohawk School. (Photo © 2004 Michele Anderson.)

Bete Grise awarded $450,000 for coastal wetland protection

Posted 11/24/2004 

WASHINGTON, D. C. -- The Houghton Keweenaw Conservation District, through the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), learned on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has approved grants totaling approximately $450,000 for Bete Grise South coastal wetlands. These funds will help protect over 1000 acres of pristine wetland in an area that includes part of the Lac La Belle sloughs and over a mile of Lake Superior shoreline at Bete Grise South, along the eastern shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula. These NOAA grants, along with the recently awarded $1 million National Coastal Wetlands Conservation grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, complete the funding needed to preserve for present and future generations an area identified by The Nature Conservancy and Michigan's Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality as the single most important estuarine marsh remaining in the Upper Great Lakes. more
Photo: Aerial view of Bete Grise South shoreline, showing Lac La Belle in background. (Photo © 2003 Michael Jordan. Reprinted with permission.)

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