Northern Wisconsin's Penokees are an old mountain range.  Today these beautiful weather and glacier-worn  hills and their waterways are threatened by Gogebic Taconite that wants to develop an open pit mine in part of the Penokees.  These pictures were all taken in or downstream of the proposed mine site.  Visit http://www.badriverwatershed.org/index.php/learn/potential-mine-information for more info.

Hooray!  GTac officially pulled out when they didn't get what they wanted for a mining law in Wisconsin.  But the ore is still there, of course, and we need to protect this beautiful area as much as ever - someone, sometime will be back to try and mine it.  Let's be ready.

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