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Here are the contents of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 2006 CD that was handed out at last night’s Coldwater Spring open house. All the documents are PDFs. Coldwater Spring/Bureau of Mines Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 2006 Final BOM DEIS July 2006 (482 pages; alternately, see separated document files below) Earlier this evening, I attended the Coldwater Spring open house at the VA Hospital hosted by National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff. (See my January blog post for details.) The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area web site has a set of web pages titled the Bureau of Mines (Coldwater) Current Status [...] I got this information (PDF) emailed to me today by Denise Niedzolkowski, Public Relations Specialist and Executive Assistant, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. She wrote: “Attached is the announcement of the public open house for the Camp Coldwater Spring, the property formerly known as the Bureau of Mines.” See my Dec. blog post National Park Service [...] I first blogged about Coldwater Spring back in April and several times since then. Now comes word that the National Park Service (NPS) will likely manage the site as part of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. The public planning process will begin soon with a Final Environmental Impact Statement [...] I took photos and captured the audio of speakers at last Friday’s press conference at Coldwater Spring. See these two articles in the Strib for more info: Strib, Sept. 5: Occupation of park site expected to end today See the album of 13 photos or this slideshow [...] In today’s Strib: Conflict looms as Indians’ protest permit expires today. The permit that Dakota Indians protesting in Minneapolis were given — but didn’t ask for — expires this afternoon. The two dozen or so protesters erected two teepees and a couple of modern-day tents Tuesday in a bid to reclaim land for the Dakota. But [...] Back in April, I blogged about the importance of Coldwater Spring and posted a photo album of the site in winter. The photo on the left is from when I visited again in June. (Click to enlarge.) In today’s Strib: Permit delays Dakota fight for Coldwater Spring site. Organizers said they don’t plan to leave after the [...] My wife Robbie and I spent a couple hours at the end of the day on Sunday at the Minnesota Historical Society’s Lower Sioux Agency historic site: Established by the U.S. government in 1853 as an administrative center, the Agency became the scene of the first organized attack in the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. We spent [...]
On Sunday we stopped at the Renville County Historical Museum in Morton, MN and met volunteers Chris Hettig and Steve Hettig (right photo, click to enlarge). They’re standing in front of a display about Joseph Renville, my great, great, great grandfather. Chris showed me a folder of miscellaneous research papers and newspaper clippings [...] My wife and I camped at Fort Ridgely State Park last weekend so we could visit the MNHS Fort Ridgely Historic Site within the park, as well as other historic sites in the area.
My initial impression wasn’t good. The MNHS marker for Fort Ridgely (left center photo) at the entrance paints a [...]
Yesterday after I visited the MNHS roadside historical marker on the Sandy Lake Tragedy (blogged here), I drove about a mile north on Hwy 65 to the town of Libby, MN and the entrance to the Sandy Lake Recreation Area. Near the dam is the Mikwendaagoziwag Memorial, constructed by Ojibwe Tribes in 2001, commemorating the [...] Back in early July, I blogged about the Sandy Lake tragedy, the death of approximately 400 Ojibwe in 1850 resulting from the federal government’s attempt to remove them from northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan to Minnesota. I paid a visit to the site yesterday, first stopping at a roadside rest with two Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) [...]
Yesterday I stopped by the Thompson Hill Travel Information Center/rest stop that overlooks Duluth and noticed this ‘Welcome to Minnesota’ marker erected by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1987. (This sign is replicated at state borders in several places around the state.) It reads: Known to her citizens as the North Star State or the [...] I attended an event at Ft. Snelling State Park on Saturday titled, Bdote – Rivers and People Coming Together. The event calendar said: The area now known as Fort Snelling State Park has worn many titles in Minnesota history, from Dakota homeland to concentration camp, military post to recreation area. Explore the history of this site [...] While doing a little research about Biauswah, the Ojibewe chief who had the Hwy 23 bridge named after him last week, I notice that the Wikipedia entry said he was "… the principal Chief of the Sandy Lake Ojibwa, whose village was located at either terminous of the Savanna Portage (Sandy Lake & opposite the [...] |
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