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Continue reading →: Soaring Gas Prices in Saint Ignace have Stabilized SomeFuel costs have been spiking all summer long in Saint Ignace and around the state. With averages nearing $4.90 in recent weeks. MLIVE shows that some stations in Michigan have come down nearly 24 cents this week still staying above the $4.22 average from a month ago and well above…
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Continue reading →: A Brief History of Saint Ignace before the Bridge
As one of the oldest European settlements in Michigan, Saint Ignace has roots dating back to 1671 when French Jesuit, Father Marquette made his from Sault Ste. Marie what is now Saint Ignace. Prior to Saint Ignace becoming a European settlement it was largely occupied by Native Americans, specifically the…
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Continue reading →: Soaring Gas and Grocery Prices Make Saint Ignace More Difficult to Live
Saint Ignace is a small town on the end of the Upper Peninsula. This town is alive with tourists and travelers in the summertime. In the winter it comes to a screeching halt. In this town rising fuel prices, one small grocery store, and the end of tourist season makes…
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Continue reading →: Environmental Concerns for the Waters that flow Beneath the Mackinac Bridge.While the Mackinac Bridge is five miles long and it spans the water between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The waters beneath the bridge are highly contested. Forbes discusses how the permits for the aging pipeline below the straits has had the permits granted and then taken away setting up continuing legal…
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Continue reading →: Silent Landscapes and Loud Realitieshttps://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js In the 1980s Michigan determined that the sand dunes along the lake fronts of Michigan were deemed to be a critical habitat. Subpart 353 discusses what is allowed as part of the dune protection and what activities are not allowed and violated the protections of the sand dunes. Even…
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Continue reading →: Global Warming Will Surpass 1.5°CWith the latest information coming out of the United Nations, they have determined it is not a matter of if we will exceed 1.5° any more but when we will. This information will be discussed in September at COP31 in Turkey. Amongst the discussions will be the information that was…
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Continue reading →: Environmental Concerns of Tourism in a Small Town.https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js While Saint Ignace is a small town surrounded by two of the Great Lakes, it goes to sleep in the winter time. In May the tourism starts again and so do the concerns for the town and the environment. The cars file across the bridge adding more emissions to…
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Continue reading →: Can Fiction Save the Real World?With the upward trend in climate-based fiction everyone is leaning more towards the hopeful and less on the dystopian fiction. According to Now Novel these stories are on the rise where authors are using nature itself as the central theme or character. This writing coach stated that part of what makes it an eco-fiction…
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Continue reading →: Green Logging: Preserving the FutureSustainable logging is something that Michigan began in the early 1900s. The program began as a reason to start replanting deforested sections of the state. The Forestry Commission was started in 1883 to try to protect this natural resource. While old growth forests still exist within the state the numbers…
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Continue reading →: Wildfire Smoke Blankets Michigan.As this wildfire season gets rocking and the northern states are blanketed in wildfire smoke from Canadian wildfires and fires that are burning across northern Minnesota. According to the U.S. Forest Service there is only 15-17 active wildfires in Minnesota and there are currently none burning in Wisconsin or Michigan.…
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