More Up North Issues
Issues that affect the community of our Lake Superior homeland.
By clicking on the links below you will be able to hear and see more about each story.
The Deer Need the Wolves to Survive
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When environmental science teacher Kirby Kohler isn’t teaching at the Rhinelander Community Charter School he’s usually out in the woods, hunting. Kohler just published a story in “Traditional Bowhunter” magazine called “Whitetails, Wolves, and Lightning Bolts.” Kohler argues that when hunters challenge the protection of the wolf under the Endangered Species Act hunters create a negative image with the non-hunting public. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
What If My Son Doesn't Want To Go?
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Convinced that a
military draft looms on the horizon, a Quaker attorney JE Mc
Neil, from
the Center on Conscience and War, recently held a draft
counseling
training in Eau Claire. Their website is
www.nisbco.org. Mc Neil
teaches people how to apply for conscientious objector status.
A person
can become a Conscientious Objector if they prove to their
draft
board they are “conscientiously opposed to
war in any form by reason of religious training and belief.”
Nick Vander
Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network spoke to
McNeil. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
A Walk to Save the Forests
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A Northland
College student is hiking almost three thousand miles through
the
California high country to British Columbia, as a way
to preserve the forest in northern
Wisconsin. The walker Bill Hogseth supports the
Ashland
and Madison-based Habitat Education Center. Two years
ago the Habitat
Education Center filed lawsuits in federal court to stop some
logging
in the Cheqaumegon Nicolet
National Forest. The group argues that logging would harm
pine marten
and goshawk. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior
Broadcast Network reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Huge Ugly Transmission Line Tries to Slice Through Beautiful Wisconsin Wetlands and Lives
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At a public hearing in
the northwest Wisconsin this fall the Wisconsin Department of
Natural
Resources accepted public testimony on efforts by utilities to
build the
Arrowhead Weston 345,000 volt transmission line across
northwest
Wisconsin. The Public Service Commission has approved the line,
but the
decision is being appealed by grassroots organizations, Clean
Wisconsin
and SOUL. The American Transmission Company needs more
state permits to
build temporary bridges, dredge, and erect more than 300 steel
poles in
wetlands. The DNR may approve building the line without doing
an
environmental impact statement. Nick Vander Puy from the
Superior Broadcast Network reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Robert Kennedy Jr.'s words rally thousands at Fighting Bob Fest in Wisconsin.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says President George W. Bush’s environmental policies are the worst in United States history because some corporate interests have been given the green light to plunder the commons. Speaking at the Fighting Bob Lafollette Fest in Baraboo, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacked Bush administration environmental policies. The son of slain US Senator Bobby Kennedy, the fifty year old Robert Kennedy Jr., has just published a book, “Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy.” Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Richard Heinberg addresses "The End of Oil."
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Earlier this summer, author Richard Heinberg spoke near Stevens
Point, Wisconsin at the annual Midwest Renewable Energy Fair. Heinberg
talked about Peak Oil extraction and the resulting decline of
industrial societies. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast
Network was one of few media in attendance to report. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Depleted Uranium- Miles says -is the real "weapons of mass destruction"
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Mike Miles is a longtime peace
and justice advocate, running as the Green Party
congressional
candidate for the 7th district in northern Wisconsin.
Miles is trying to bring attention to the
American use of radio-active weapons in the Middle
East. Earlier last
summer, Miles was arrested at a Minnesota weapons plant,
Alliant Tech Systems, while trying to talk
with company officials. Nick Vander Puy from the
Superior Broadcast Network reports.
Click Here to listen to this radio story
and see a few more pictures. |
Late Fall Political Rallies....
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Democrats gather in
the fall to support candidates for national office, like John
Kerry,
Senator Russ Feingold and Congressman Dave Obey, as well as
locals like
Mary Satterwhite, Mary Hubler, Frank Boyle, Gary Sherman and
Russ
Decker. Long time Congressman Dave Obey pulled out a harmonica
and
played along with WOJB's Eric Schubring on "This Land Is
Your Land".. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Space Pancakes & Flying Saucers Land in North Woods!
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It’s a famous UFO encounter and it
happened in Eagle River, Wisconsin, more than forty years ago,
April 18, 1961. Joe Simonton, a chicken farmer, plumber, and
part time Santa, got up from breakfast and reported
hearing a sound, “like knobby tires on a wet pavement.”
Simonton went outside and saw, hovering in the backyard a
silver spaceship,
he said “as bright as chrome and like one soup bowl turned upside
down on
another.” Then the craft landed, and a hatch went
up... Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
George Crocker speaks at Rally
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Transmission line opponents and
landowners are trying to stop the American
Transmission Line Company from building the
Duluth to Wausau electric transmission line. A veteran
transmission line fighter George Crocker leads the fight against the
electricity barons. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Gaylord Nelson speaks for his beloved Namekagon
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Joined by hundreds of
supporters, both Indian and non-Indian, Gaylord Nelson,
Wisconsin's former Senator was honored for his protection of
the
Namekagon River. Nelson told the crowd he would have to
be "two hundred years old" before he would support
the 345,000 volt ATC
Arrowhead transmission line to cross the river he helped
preserve back
in 1968 through the passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Nick
Vander Puy of Superior Broadcast Network was at the gathering
in May of
2003. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Jerry Smith - Traditional Anishinaabe says "No" to Powerline
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Neighbor Jerry Smith says
the giant Arrowhead Weston electric line,
slicing across northwestern Wisconsin ceded territory
will destroy the medicine..
Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network
reports. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
New Thoughts on the Old School
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Getting into college has
been an article of faith for generations. But the world of
work is changing very rapidly. Dr. Susan Quattrociocchi asks how can we continue
to tell our children to go to college to get a college job
when only 23% of all jobs are
college jobs? Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Marge Gibson cares for Goshawks
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Marge Gibson from
Antigo, Wisconsin started working with birds when she was eight
years old. She cared for eagles trapped in the
Exxon Valdez oil spill. Nick Vander Puy visits
her hospital just as she is getting
ready to release a goshawk. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Mining Movement
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Thousands of allies, both
Indian and non-Indian danced in Green Bay in early
December to celebrate victory against the Crandon
mine. The mine, which would have been located
directly upstream from Wisconsin’s smallest
reservation, Mole Lake, was fought for 27 years. In the end, the tribes and their allies won. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Woods And Water
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Mike Dombeck served as the
United States Forest Service chief during the Clinton
Administration. Today Dombeck is the professor of global
environmental management at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He says water is the most under valued forest
product. Mike Dombeck wants the public to recognize the vital
connection between water and forests because high water
quality is a sign of landscape health. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures |
Old Time Logging with Horses with Jacob Oblitz
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A five-minute must hear story
featured on community radio stations throughout North Wisconsin
that depicts a new age logger returning to the roots of
logging. Reported by Nick Vander Puy of the Superior
Broadcast Network. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |
Light Pollution
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Have you looked up into the
night sky, lately? How many stars can you see? You should be
able to see, without using a telescope or binoculars,
about twenty-five hundred points of light. But in
most northern Wisconsin cities you can see less than
fifteen stars. The reason for
the disappearing stars is light
pollution. Light pollution is caused by excessive, misdirected
outdoor lighting. Light pollution threatens to
destroy most casual stargazing. The
week before Christmas Nick Vander Puy
from the Superior Broadcast Network and a local medical
doctor check out the lights of a northern
Wisconsin city. Click Here to listen to this radio story and see a few more pictures. |