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Isle Royale park structures protected under new alliance

The federal government, an entity many people wouldn't necessarily consider the best for the purposes of planning, seems to be out front in establishing an organization to advance coordinated protection and improvement of Isle Royale National Park's historic structures. The Isle Royale Heritage Alliance will be responsible for about 90 cabins, 19 fishery buildings and four lighthouses. The alliance will be powered by volunteers, with coordination by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation, the designated nonprofit park partner for Lake Superior's five national parks. "The ...

It’s time to check trees for invasive Asian longhorned beetle

Residents in the region need only look at what likely is a dead ash tree -- perhaps already a stump -- in their yard or neighborhood to know the devastation that can be done by an invasive species. Since first being discovered in the U.S. in 2002 in Michigan, the emerald ash borer has all but ...