Monday, March 11, 2013

Keweenaw Now Editor Michele Bourdieu gives Protect Wolves story good play honoring the wolves, EarthKeepers II Student team, Native American Students

More media - thank you God - for everything!!


The Keep Michigan Wolves Protected related story appears in Keweenaw Now, an Upper Peninsula environment news source that is much acclaimed and followed by many.

The story is about the efforts of the Northern Michigan University EarthKeepers II Student Team and the NMU Native American Students Association, and many others across the state like Adam Adam T Robarge, Upper Peninsula coordinator for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected.

This was made possible by editor Michele Bourdieu, who was traveling abroad when she got our story and made it a prior up her return to the Keweenaw Now News Room.


Thanks again to to Keweenaw Now Editor Michele Bourdieu – a bright green light is today's smokey skies.
Story includes video on the native plant projects and recognition of Charlotte Loonsfoot and the others at KBIC who have made it happen - a native plants greenhouse at KBIC.

EarthKeepers II vids on YouTube, Vimeo and more

 FYI - Important:

(Marquette, MI) – An event involving many student organizations is being planned for March 20, 2013 at NMU, and organizers hope to have officials present on campus to register people to vote.

Northern Michigan University Students and others crossed campus in wind-driven heavy snow showers on February 27, 2013 to sign the petition to save Michigan gray wolves from being hunted - and a second NMU petition drive is planned on March 20.

About 50 signatures were gathered from registered voters during an event sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA), organizers said.

Keep Michigan Wolves Protected organizers have until March 27 to get 161,305 signatures from registered voters to force a Nov. 2014 to decide the fate of the wolf hunting bill.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

ABC10 WBUP-TV - CW 5 News Story "NMU students join wolf hunting debate" promotes EarthKeepers II Student Team event: The "Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. Today Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA)

NMU students join wolf hunting debate



ABC10 WBUP-TV/CW 5 in Ishpeming, Michigan does preview story on NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team petition signing event to protect Michigan wolves

The "Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. Today Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA).

For spiritual, religious, cultural, ecological and common sense reasons, two groups of Northern Michigan University students are hosting an anti-wolf hunt education and petition signing event today to help put the issue before Michigan voters.

Thanks to ABC10 News Director/Station Manager Cynthia Thompson and ABC10 Senior News Reporter Mike Hoey

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Help Protect Michigan Wolves From Slaughter: Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. this Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and Native American Students Association (NASA)


Northern Michigan University Environment and Native American Students This Wednesday Join Debate Over Wolf Hunting in Michigan

(Marquette, MI) – For spiritual, religious, cultural, ecological and common sense reasons, two groups of Northern Michigan University students are hosting an anti-wolf hunt education and petition signing event this Wednesday to help put the issue before Michigan voters.

The "Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. this Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA).

Saying she opposes the proposed Michigan wolf hunt "because it is senseless" and motivated by money, NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team member Katelin Bingner, 20, said "the wolf isn't our enemy, the wolf is closer to being something like our brother."

Only registered Michigan voters can sign the petitions provided by Keep Michigan Wolves Protected that is seeking enough signatures to force a November 2014 referendum on the wolf debate.

Hunting wolves is a trophy sport because they have little or no fur value and are not generally consumed by humans, said Bingner, an NMU sophomore biology major from Spring Arbor, MI.

In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed western Great Lakes wolves from Endangered Species Act.
In a lame-duck session, Republican Governor Rick Snyder signed Public Act 520 in late 2012 turning the wolf into a game animal and giving the Michigan Natural Resources Commission the power to decide the creation of a wolf hunting season.

Keep Michigan Wolves Protected organizers have until March 27 to get 161,305 signatures in the effort allow voters to decide the fate of the wolf hunting bill.

“It is premature to have a wolf hunting season in Michigan and trophy hunt animals that were  just taken off the endangered species list,” said NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team member Adam Magnuson, 21, of Marquette.

“There are less than 700 wolves in Michigan and they are a recovering population,” said Magnuson, an NMU environmental studies and sustainability major.

“The wolves were on the federal endangered species list for 40 years – and it seems pointless to spend the taxpayers money to protect them for 40 years and then hunt wolves immediately after they are off the endangered species list,” Magnuson said.

Anti-wolf hunting groups are actively trying to defray fears about wolves and are attempting to educate the public about reasons the predators should be protected – especially those unfamiliar with the U.P. wolf packs.

Religious reasons for protecting Michigan wolves include respect for nature and human impact on the environment including wildlife, said Tom Merkel, a peer minister at NMU Catholic Campus Ministry in St. Michael Parish.

Quoting the many environmental and wildlife protection messages from retiring Pope Benedict XVI, Merkel noted the head of the Catholic church told followers that “preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.”

Often called the Green Pope,  Benedict XVI noted that “the order of creation demands that a priority be given to those human activities that do not cause irreversible damage to nature.”

Merkel said the pope's messages can be directly related to the slaughter of Michigan wolves including the statement that “the world is not something indifferent, raw material to be utilized simply as we see fit.”

Wolves do not pose a significant  threat to humans and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources "cull problem wolves involved in livestock depredation," Bingner said.

"It is absolutely vital that we remember to take the Native American perspective” about wolves that were once wiped out by Michigan residents and it has taken five decades to start the recovery of the gray wolf with the latest state population estimate of  687 wolves, she said.

Michigan's proposed 2013 wolf hunt “is distressing, saddening and I don't like the idea at all,” said Amanda Weinert, 21, co-president of the NMU NASA and citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

In addition to moral reasons for not hunting Michigan wolves, Weinert said the wolf is significant in Anishinaabe heritage and culture.

Recounting stories told to her by elders, the Garden, MI native said wolves are “important to our group because of the story of the Great Spirit Gitchi Manitou" and the connection between the first man with a wolf as they "traveled Turtle Island."

“In traditional Anishinaabe storytelling the first man is lonely so he asks Gitchi Manitou – the Great Spirit for a companion and is given the ma'iingan or wolf,” said Weinert, an NMU senior with a major in metalsmithing and jewelry, and is seeking a bachelor in science and a minor in Native American studies.

“The wolf came with him on the journey to name all the animals and plants,” Weinert said. “At end of the journey Gitchi Manitou said the two would part ways but would still be connected.”

“The Anishinaabe and the wolf are connected and live parallel lives,” she said.

The early 1900's slaughter and injustice suffered by Michigan wolves reminds Weinert of similar mistreatment of Native Americans at the hands of European-American settlers.

“There are great similarities with Anishinaabe peoples mistreatment and not being understood with the the general mistreatment of wolves,” she said.

“Wolves have been driven out of their homeland” and that “compares to the Anishinaabe because they too got re-located (and) put on reservations,” Weinert said “Wolves got pushed out of their territories by the mining and logging industries – it's man's effect on the forest.”

Merkel said the message to protect wolves can be seen in the pope's mesage that “the order of creation demands that a priority be given to those human activities that do not cause irreversible damage to nature" and "care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity" because “the deterioration of nature" is "closely connected to the culture that shapes human coexistence" adding man shouldn't "turn his back on the Creator’s plan.”

A Catholic, Merkel said protection of wildlife and nature is important in many religions including the Dalai Lama who said “wealth is not necessarily a bad thing” but must be “earned in an honest manner” while ensuring that neither “individuals nor the environment suffered for it.”

Merkel said the Dalai Lama told followers that mankind should  “maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings” and we must “extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.”

The NMU petition signing to protect wolves will include watching a short video titled “The Timber Wolf of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan."

In the proposed wolf hunts occurs during the fall of 2013 in the U.P., Michigan would be the seventh state with a wolf hunting/trapping season, according to wolf hunting opponents who say Wolves once roamed most of North America until being over-hunted and destroyed by humans

Wolves have had little effect on Michigan deer population, anti-wolf hunting groups have said adding Michigan needs to increase compensation to farmers suffering related livestock losses instead of slaughtering wolves for trophies

Restoring federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region that ended in 2012 is goal of recent federal lawsuit that charges the removal of wolves from the endangered list in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin is threatening wolf recovery throughout most of their historic range

The Feb. 2013 lawsuit was filed against Suit filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar by the Humane Society of the United States, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Animals and Their Environment, Help Our Wolves Live, and Born Free USA.

Minnesota had an estimated 3,000 wolves before they came of the endangered species list, while Michigan and Wisconsin had 687 and 782, respectively.

**Editors Note on background/story contact info:

Article/news release written by Greg Peterson, EarthKeepers II volunteer media advisor
906-401-0109
EarthKeepersII@gmail.com

EarthKeepers II is a two-year interfaith energy conservation and community garden initiative across the Upper Peninsula that will create of 30 native plants gardens and provide free energy audits for 40 churches/temple plus award grants to help the houses of worship make repairs in an effort to reduce airborne mercury from entering Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan.

The EarthKeepers II Student Team in an autonomous group planning its own project plus recording radio and television public service announcements while assisting with the native plants gardens initiative and energy conservation education.

EarthKeepers II is funded by a grant from EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative with assistance from the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region office in Milwaukee in cooperation with U.P. Anishinaabe tribes, the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette and Delta Green, a Marquette nonprofit corporation specializing in energy conservation.

The energy conservation audits began Monday (Feb. 25, 2013) in Marquette with inspections at three churches and one temple.

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Natural Resources Committee Chair Charlotte Loonsfoot, who is part of the EarthKeepers II project will be collecting anti-wolf hunt petition signatures at the Lac Vieux Desert Pow Wow on March 9 and 10.

Below is contact info for those interviewed in story, and links related to the initiative:


Keep Michigan Wolves Protected

EarthKeepers II social sites:

http://www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
https://vimeo.com/EarthKeepersII
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
http://EarthKeepersII.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
http://pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII
http://pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-Great-Lakes-Restoratio
http://pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Initiative
EarthKeepers II – EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Press Conference Video 1-18-13:

http://youtu.be/Fq7FNxupggc
http://vimeo.com/EarthKeepersII/press-conference

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The NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team:

Adam Magnuson
262-364-7078

Katelin Bingner
517-416-4811

Thomas “Tom” J. Merkel
906-396-7522

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Native American Students Association (NASA)
NASA is a student organization that plans and promotes events related to Native American heritage and culture on campus


Amanda Weinert, Co-President of the NMU Native American Students Association
906-399-9147
906-227-1397

Hannah Vallier, Co-President of the NMU Native American Students Association
906-450-1274

Native American Students Association (NASA) Co-Supervisors:

Tina Moses, CNAS principle secretary

Grace Chaillier, Contingent Assistant Professor for CNAS

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Adam Robarge, Upper Peninsula coordinator for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected
Petition to request a Referendum on Michigan Public Act 520 that makes wolf a game animal in Michigan
Presentation on wolves at Portage Library in Houghton, MI
Feb. 15, 2013

Petition signing by Adam Robarge, U.P. co-organizer of Keep Michigan Wolves Protected
February 26, 10-2 PM

NMU students and wolves

Adam Robarge


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Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
403 E. Michigan St.
Marquette, MI
49855

Rev. Jon Magnuson, M.Div., MSW
EarthKeepers II Founder
Executive Director/Founder of Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI

906-228-5494 (hm)
906-360-5072 (cell)
magnusonx2@charter.net

Cedar Tree Institute projects include Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, the Manitou Project and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project

Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski, EarthKeepers II Project Coordinator
906-250-7643 (cell)

Greg Peterson
Volunteer media advisor for the EarthKeepers II and other Cedar Tree Institute projects
906-401-0109

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)

Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
60604-3590

312-886-6681 (wk)
312-692-2974 (fax)

Plus Elizabeth 'Liz' LaPlante, senior manager for the EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office in Chicago, Ill

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Jan Schultz,
USDA U.S. Forest Service
USFS Eastern Region (R-9)
Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader
Special Forest Products Program Leader
Milwaukee, WI

414-297-1189 (wk)
906-345-9885 (Marquette)

U.S. Forest Service (USFS)

Larry Stritch
National Botanist
USDA U.S. Forest Service
Washington, DC

202-205-1279

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Doug Russell
Executive Director of Delta Green, a Marquette-based nonprofit corporation
906-250-7461

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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

KBIC Tribal Chair Warren C. “Chris” Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623
906-201-1703 cell

KBIC Natural Resources Department (NRD)

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

Charlotte Loonsfoot, Chair
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Natural Resources Committee

Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD natural resources specialist
906-524-5757

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Borealis Seed Company
Big Bay, Michigan

(906) 226-8507 office
(906) 345-9636 nursery

Owners:
Suzanne Rabitaille
Judy Keast

Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 event for protecting Michigan wolves, petition signing aimed at stopping wolf hunt sponsored by MU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA)


Links related to NMU EK II Student Team protecting wolves - more coming including interview/story with Kaitlin's hometown newspaper in Jackson, MI

ABC10 WBUP-TV/CW 5 does preview story on NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team petition signing event to protect Michigan wolves
The "Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. Today Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA).
For spiritual, religious, cultural, ecological and common sense reasons, two groups of Northern Michigan University students are hosting an anti-wolf hunt education and petition signing event today to help put the issue before Michigan voters.
Thanks to ABC10 News Director/Station Manager Cynthia Thompson and ABC10 Senior News Reporter Mike Hoey

EK II website (thanks Obadiah for being fast)

Cedar Tree Institute website (thanks Obadiah for being fast)

EK II blog


Got a shout-out on official Keep Michigan Wolves Protected Facebook page (scroll down a tad)

Many photos on our Facebook pages
Here is an album:

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(Marquette, MI) – For spiritual, religious, cultural, ecological and common sense reasons, two groups of Northern Michigan University students are hosting an anti-wolf hunt education and petition signing event this tonight (Wednesday) to help put the issue before Michigan voters.

The "Wolf Hunt Petition Signing Night" is from 7-10 p.m. this Wed., Feb. 27, 2013 in Jamrich 103 on the NMU Campus sponsored by the NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team and the Native American Students Association (NASA).

Saying she opposes the proposed Michigan wolf hunt "because it is senseless" and motivated by money, NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team member Katelin Bingner, 20, said "the wolf isn't our enemy, the wolf is closer to being something like our brother."

Only registered Michigan voters can sign the petitions provided by Keep Michigan Wolves Protected that is seeking enough signatures to force a November 2014 referendum on the wolf debate.

Hunting wolves is a trophy sport because they have little or no fur value and are not generally consumed by humans, said Bingner, an NMU sophomore biology major from Spring Arbor, MI.

In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed western Great Lakes wolves from Endangered Species Act.
In a lame-duck session, Republican Governor Rick Snyder signed Public Act 520 in late 2012 turning the wolf into a game animal and giving the Michigan Natural Resources Commission the power to decide the creation of a wolf hunting season.

Keep Michigan Wolves Protected organizers have until March 27 to get 161,305 signatures in the effort allow voters to decide the fate of the wolf hunting bill.

It is premature to have a wolf hunting season in Michigan and trophy hunt animals that were just taken off the endangered species list,” said NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team member Adam Magnuson, 21, of Marquette.

There are less than 700 wolves in Michigan and they are a recovering population,” said Magnuson, an NMU environmental studies and sustainability major.

The wolves were on the federal endangered species list for 40 years – and it seems pointless to spend the taxpayers money to protect them for 40 years and then hunt wolves immediately after they are off the endangered species list,” Magnuson said.

Anti-wolf hunting groups are actively trying to defray fears about wolves and are attempting to educate the public about reasons the predators should be protected – especially those unfamiliar with the U.P. wolf packs.

Religious reasons for protecting Michigan wolves include respect for nature and human impact on the environment including wildlife, said Tom Merkel, a peer minister at NMU Catholic Campus Ministry in St. Michael Parish.

Quoting the many environmental and wildlife protection messages from retiring Pope Benedict XVI, Merkel noted the head of the Catholic church told followers that “preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.”

Often called the Green Pope, Benedict XVI noted that “the order of creation demands that a priority be given to those human activities that do not cause irreversible damage to nature.”

Merkel said the pope's messages can be directly related to the slaughter of Michigan wolves including the statement that “the world is not something indifferent, raw material to be utilized simply as we see fit.”

Wolves do not pose a significant threat to humans and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources "cull problem wolves involved in livestock depredation," Bingner said.

"It is absolutely vital that we remember to take the Native American perspective” about wolves that were once wiped out by Michigan residents and it has taken five decades to start the recovery of the gray wolf with the latest state population estimate of 687 wolves, she said.

Michigan's proposed 2013 wolf hunt “is distressing, saddening and I don't like the idea at all,” said Amanda Weinert, 21, co-president of the NMU NASA and citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

In addition to moral reasons for not hunting Michigan wolves, Weinert said the wolf is significant in Anishinaabe heritage and culture.

Recounting stories told to her by elders, the Garden, MI native said wolves are “important to our group because of the story of the Great Spirit Gitchi Manitou" and the connection between the first man with a wolf as they "traveled Turtle Island."

In traditional Anishinaabe storytelling the first man is lonely so he asks Gitchi Manitou – the Great Spirit for a companion and is given the ma'iingan or wolf,” said Weinert, an NMU senior with a major in metalsmithing and jewelry, and is seeking a bachelor in science and a minor in Native American studies.

The wolf came with him on the journey to name all the animals and plants,” Weinert said. “At end of the journey Gitchi Manitou said the two would part ways but would still be connected.”

The Anishinaabe and the wolf are connected and live parallel lives,” she said.

The early 1900's slaughter and injustice suffered by Michigan wolves reminds Weinert of similar mistreatment of Native Americans at the hands of European-American settlers.

There are great similarities with Anishinaabe peoples mistreatment and not being understood with the the general mistreatment of wolves,” she said.

Wolves have been driven out of their homeland” and that “compares to the Anishinaabe because they too got re-located (and) put on reservations,” Weinert said “Wolves got pushed out of their territories by the mining and logging industries – it's man's effect on the forest.”

Merkel said the message to protect wolves can be seen in the pope's mesage that “the order of creation demands that a priority be given to those human activities that do not cause irreversible damage to nature" and "care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity" because “the deterioration of nature" is "closely connected to the culture that shapes human coexistence" adding man shouldn't "turn his back on the Creator’s plan.”

A Catholic, Merkel said protection of wildlife and nature is important in many religions including the Dalai Lama who said “wealth is not necessarily a bad thing” but must be “earned in an honest manner” while ensuring that neither “individuals nor the environment suffered for it.”

Merkel said the Dalai Lama told followers that mankind should “maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings” and we must “extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.”

The NMU petition signing to protect wolves will include watching a short video titled “The Timber Wolf of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan."

In the proposed wolf hunts occurs during the fall of 2013 in the U.P., Michigan would be the seventh state with a wolf hunting/trapping season, according to wolf hunting opponents who say Wolves once roamed most of North America until being over-hunted and destroyed by humans

Wolves have had little effect on Michigan deer population, anti-wolf hunting groups have said adding Michigan needs to increase compensation to farmers suffering related livestock losses instead of slaughtering wolves for trophies

Restoring federal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region that ended in 2012 is goal of recent federal lawsuit that charges the removal of wolves from the endangered list in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin is threatening wolf recovery throughout most of their historic range

The Feb. 2013 lawsuit was filed against Suit filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar by the Humane Society of the United States, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Animals and Their Environment, Help Our Wolves Live, and Born Free USA.

Minnesota had an estimated 3,000 wolves before they came of the endangered species list, while Michigan and Wisconsin had 687 and 782, respectively.

**Editors Note on background/story contact info:

Article/news release written by Greg Peterson, EarthKeepers II volunteer media advisor
906-401-0109

EarthKeepers II is a two-year interfaith energy conservation and community garden initiative across the Upper Peninsula that will create of 30 native plants gardens and provide free energy audits for 40 churches/temple plus award grants to help the houses of worship make repairs in an effort to reduce airborne mercury from entering Lakes Superior and Lake Michigan.

The EarthKeepers II Student Team in an autonomous group planning its own project plus recording radio and television public service announcements while assisting with the native plants gardens initiative and energy conservation education.

EarthKeepers II is funded by a grant from EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative with assistance from the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region office in Milwaukee in cooperation with U.P. Anishinaabe tribes, the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette and Delta Green, a Marquette nonprofit corporation specializing in energy conservation.

The energy conservation audits began Monday (Feb. 25, 2013) in Marquette with inspections at three churches and one temple.

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Natural Resources Committee Chair Charlotte Loonsfoot, who is part of the EarthKeepers II project will be collecting anti-wolf hunt petition signatures at the Lac Vieux Desert Pow Wow on March 9 and 10.

Below is contact info for those interviewed in story, and links related to the initiative:

Keep Michigan Wolves Protected


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The NMU EarthKeepers II Student Team:

Adam Magnuson
262-364-7078

Katelin Bingner
517-416-4811

Thomas “Tom” J. Merkel
906-396-7522

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Native American Students Association (NASA)
NASA is a student organization that plans and promotes events related to Native American heritage and culture on campus


Amanda Weinert, Co-President of the NMU Native American Students Association
906-399-9147
906-227-1397

Hannah Vallier, Co-President of the NMU Native American Students Association
906-450-1274

Native American Students Association (NASA) Co-Supervisors:

Tina Moses, CNAS principle secretary

Grace Chaillier, Contingent Assistant Professor for CNAS

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Adam Robarge, Upper Peninsula coordinator for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected
Petition to request a Referendum on Michigan Public Act 520 that makes wolf a game animal in Michigan
Presentation on wolves at Portage Library in Houghton, MI
Feb. 15, 2013

Petition signing by Adam Robarge, U.P. co-organizer of Keep Michigan Wolves Protected
February 26, 10-2 PM

NMU students and wolves

Adam Robarge


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Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
403 E. Michigan St.
Marquette, MI
49855

Rev. Jon Magnuson, M.Div., MSW
EarthKeepers II Founder
Executive Director/Founder of Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI

906-228-5494 (hm)
906-360-5072 (cell)
magnusonx2@charter.net

Cedar Tree Institute projects include Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, the Manitou Project and the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project

Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski, EarthKeepers II Project Coordinator
906-250-7643 (cell)

Greg Peterson
Volunteer media advisor for the EarthKeepers II and other Cedar Tree Institute projects
906-401-0109

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy (GLBTS)

Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Great Lakes National Program Office
77 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
60604-3590

312-886-6681 (wk)
312-692-2974 (fax)

Plus Elizabeth 'Liz' LaPlante, senior manager for the EPA Great Lakes National Programs Office in Chicago, Ill

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Jan Schultz,
USDA U.S. Forest Service
USFS Eastern Region (R-9)
Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader
Special Forest Products Program Leader
Milwaukee, WI

414-297-1189 (wk)
906-345-9885 (Marquette)

U.S. Forest Service (USFS)

Larry Stritch
National Botanist
USDA U.S. Forest Service
Washington, DC

202-205-1279

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Doug Russell
Executive Director of Delta Green, a Marquette-based nonprofit corporation
906-250-7461

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Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

KBIC Tribal Chair Warren C. “Chris” Swartz Jr.
906-353-6623
906-201-1703 cell

KBIC Natural Resources Department (NRD)

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)

Charlotte Loonsfoot, Chair
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Natural Resources Committee

Evelyn Ravindran, KBIC NRD natural resources specialist
906-524-5757

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Borealis Seed Company
Big Bay, Michigan

(906) 226-8507 office
(906) 345-9636 nursery

Owners:
Suzanne Rabitaille
Judy Keast