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“The Newspaper for People Who Love the North” “The news paper for people who love the north” Late June 2014 Vol. 61, No. 14 $2.50 Digital Delivery Michigan’s Conservation Sentinel Since 1953 Historic fish transport railroad car on display at the Oden State Fish Hatchery. —North Woods Call photo Camp Grayling Remembering Casting for Expansion? Dr. John Richter Conservatives Page 1 Page 2 Page 5 Racketeering and Pete Petoskey Talks Graymont Fraud Charges Natural Resources Mine Proposal Page 1 Page 3 Page 8 www.mynorthwoodscall.com Summer break: A time for intense reflection Early July is traditionally summer break time for will lead—or what we will encounter along the way. The North Woods Call , so your next edition will not Those of you who have been through this sort of arrive until mid July. thing know how overwhelming it can be. Besides This year we’ll be occupied with more than the learning about numerous complicated and confusing usual chores and catch-up activities around home. medical choices, we are simply trying to absorb the And we won’t be hitting the road for any eagerly an - shocking news and transition to a new reality. ticipated vacations. We’re hoping for the best, of course, but are fac - Instead, we have a lot to think about and some ing this challenge on a day-by-day basis. tough decisions to make. Frankly, we still don’t know what this will mean The editor’s wife has been diagnosed with a se - for The North Woods Call . The time and resources rious case of cancer and has already begun that go into producing the newspaper have to be fac - chemotherapy treatments in an effort to get ahead of tored in to any considerations going forward. the disease. But we don’t know where this dark road So this will be a time of intense reflection. Late June 2014 Vol. 61, No. 14 $2.50 Digital Delivery Navigating the Tahquamenon —North Woods Call photo Summer is a good time to dust off the kayaks and launch them on a Michigan’s Conservation Sentinel Since 1953 northern Michigan river. Here, two boats head toward Lake Superior on the Tahquamenon River in the Upper Peninsula. The Rivermouth Campground, five miles south of Paradise, is a great place to embark Camp Grayling expansion targets public lands on relatively easy, two-way river trips. There is plenty of good fishing The Michigan National Guard A memo authored by Susan aim, according to the Free Press , and wildlife viewing along the way. And don’t be surprised if you find and Michigan Department of Nat - Thiel, manager of the DNR’s is to increase man-hours at Camp yourself accompanied by a family of curious river otters swimming ural Resources (DNR) are report - Grayling Forest Management Grayling from 200,000 to 1 mil - along the waterway. edly trying to ink a “backroom Unit, and obtained by the Free lion, and “swell the size” of the fa - deal” that would transfer some Press revealed that the military has cility by 36 percent and camp use 54,000 acres of public land to been in discussions with the DNR by 500 percent. Camp Grayling. and expects an agreement this A map that has reportedly been They apparently want to “ex - summer. part of the discussion points to a North Woods Notes pand the reach” of the 147,000- The memo was sent to around large section of the Manistee River acre military training facility and 40 DNR employees, Lohrer re - on both sides from military use, as compromise prime fishing and ported, who were directed to have well as areas on the North Branch hunting areas, according to a re - potential areas identified by May, of the Au Sable River near Con - ENDLESS WINTER: The Marquette Mining Journal earlier this cent article by Lydia Lohrer in the with a potential “verbal agree - nor’s Marsh. Included is wildlife month reported that some forecasters were predicting that ice on Lake Detroit Free Press . ment” in place by mid-July. The (Continued on Page 2) Superior ice could last until July. The prognostication, which was re - peated in USA Today , said the ice was a “continuing reminder of the wintry grip of Mother Nature, which still has yet to completely loosen.” Officials have also said that surface water temperatures in the deepest parts of the lake will be at least 6 degrees Fahrenheit colder than normal by August, delaying the onset of the evaporation season. SHEPPARD’S CALL: The North Woods Call —particularly those years that the newspaper was published by the late Glen Sheppard—is the focus of a feature story in the June 2014 issue of the Mackinac Jour - nal . The article was written by longtime Call reader Richard A. Wiles, who is a retired history and reading development instructor at Petoskey High School and a retired graduate research instructor at Spring Arbor University. ASIAN CARP FAILURE: After spending $110 million on electric barriers in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that were supposed to keep Asian carp from swimming upstream to the Great Lakes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it still hasn’t solved the problem. Ac - cording to an article by Eric Sharp in Bridge Magazine , following the Corps initial investment and subsequent “upgrades and augmentation,” the invaders are just 50 miles downstream from Lake Michigan, with some evidence that at least a few may have crossed into the big lake. ENDANGERED SPECIES: This year marks the 40th anniversary of Michigan’s Endangered Species Act (ESA)—legislation that has been Au Sable Threat? —North Woods Call photo critical to the recovery of the state’s rarest flora and fauna. The ESA was The Au Sable River—seen here calmly flowing through a public park in downtown Grayling—is among signed into law by then-Gov. William G. Milliken on July 11, 1974. those natural resources that conservationists fear could be negatively impacted by a proposed expansion Since then, the Department of Natural Resources has partnered with of the Camp Grayling military reservation (see story above). Areas of the North Branch have reportedly many conservation organizations and federal agencies to help threat - been mentioned in discussions between the National Guard and Department of Natural Resources. ened and endangered species, including the gray wolf, bald eagle, pere - Michigan vs. Chesapeake Energy grine falcon and osprey. BOARDMAN RIVER: The Boardman River was recently named Charges of racketeering and fraud are filed in the national Top 10 “Waters to Watch” for conservation efforts by the National Fish Habitat Partnership. The “Waters to Watch” list is as - The Michigan attorney general’s office has filed tained uncompensated land options from these sembled by the nation’s leading authorities on aquatic conservation. The felony racketeering and fraud charges against Okla - landowners by false pretenses, and prevented com - projects listed represent examples of local efforts that protect, restore homa-based Chesapeake Energy Corporation. petitors from leasing the land. and enhance fish and aquatic communities. “These projects are a model The company is now accused of victimizing pri - The new charges, filed June 5, include one count for how fish habitat conservation should be approached.” said Kelly vate land owners across northern Michigan. of conducting criminal enterprises, a felony punish - Hepler, chair of the National Fish Habitat Board. “Scamming hardworking Michigan citizens is not able by a fine up to $100,000. In addition, there are how we do business in this state,” said Attorney Gen - eight counts of “false pretenses” involving $1,000 to eral Bill Schuette, calling Chesapeake’s activities $20,000—a felony punishable by a fine of $10,000 Backwards-sdrawkcaB printing “fraudulent business practices.” per count, or three times the value of the money or Oops. tion. The complaint alleges that Chesapeake directed property involved, whichever is greater. We must have been suffering We discovered this when we their agents to recruit multiple landowners across Representatives from Chesapeake were scheduled from a touch of dyslexia this showed up to retrieve The Call Northern Michigan to lease their land to Chesapeake to be arraigned on June 25, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. be - month when the early June North from the printer and decided to the summer of 2010. Landowners often notified the fore Cheboygan County’s 89th District Court. Woods Call went to press. go with it as it was, rather than agents of existing mortgages on the land to be leased, Chesapeake already faced criminal charges filed As subscribers to the print edi - asking for a complete reprint. the attorney general said, and the agents allegedly in - by Schuette in March 2014 for alleged anti-trust vio - tion no doubt discovered when That would only have delayed dicated the mortgages would not be an obstacle. lations with regard to private land leasing in the sum - they attempted to open the news - delivery and caused us to make When competition from competitors stopped, mer of 2010, and the state land auction held by the paper, the cover and back page an extra trip to Allegan to get the Chesapeake—through its leasing agents—allegedly Department of Natural Resources in October 2010. were inappropriately juxtaposed. corrected edition. cancelled nearly all the leases, using mortgages as the During the DNR’s May 2010 auction, both Chesa - As a result, the paper opened Our apologies for any incon - purported basis for the cancellation. peake and Encana Oil and Gas purchased natural from the left-hand side, rather venience this unexpected error Schuette alleges, therefore, that Chesapeake ob - (Continued on Page 3) than the normal right-hand posi - may have caused.
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