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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Michigan</title>
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		<title>Michigan: Going on a Safari on Fighting Island, Detroit River</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/michigan-going-on-a-safari-on-fighters-island-on-the-detroit-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habitat restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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Driving on its few roads is like going on safari, with pheasants scurrying into dense brush and black-crowned night herons flapping their graceful wings and landing on trees. A colony of thousands of ring-necked gulls protects its delicate, tiny eggs on one corner of the island. Marshes have been created out of what used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan: Mt. Pleasant Public Schools on 6 primary arguments in favor 	of harmful logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/michigan-mt-pleasant-public-schools-on-6-primary-arguments-in-favor-of-harmful-logging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmful logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinning harms forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Pine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to harmful logging and making excuses for why it&#8217;s
acceptable, I&#8217;m always curious, always in want to know more. So today an
article comes through that sums up all those excuses so clearly. Below
you will find and article that best illustrates six primary arguments
for harmful logging: 1) It&#8217;s maintaining / sustaining the forest, 2)
too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan: Hunter explains kinds of trees deers need, especially 	hemlocks in winter</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/29/michigan-hunter-explains-kinds-of-trees-deers-need-especially-hemlocks-in-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consequences of clearcut logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ungulates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ask most deer hunters about what sorts of forests and woodlots are
best for white-tailed deer and many immediately will zoom in on those
that produce food: oaks and other mast-producing trees. Others, with a
little better understanding of the creature&#8217;s year-round needs, will
talk about early successional forests &#8212; aspen and the associated
understory, where forbs and shrubs provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan: Logging psychiatric hospital property without development plan is crazy</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/19/michigan-logging-a-psychiatric-hospital-property-without-a-development-plan-is-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although it&#8217;s perfectly legal, residents are protesting developer
REIS&#8217; decision to begin timber harvesting on the former Northville
Regional Psychiatric Hospital property, which began on Jan. 9. REIS is
a partnership between Real Estate Interests Group and Schostak &#38;
Brothers Company. Emsley said Joe Goeddeke, a soil erosion expert from
Wayne County, recently contacted him since Emsley heads the group
Citizens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan: Endangered Dragonfly lawsuit forces a settlement with 	Hiawatha &amp; Mark Twain NF</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/01/17/michigan-endangered-dragonfly-lawsuit-forces-a-settlement-with-hiawatha-mark-twain-nf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enviro litigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TRAVERSE CITY &#8211; The government is reconsidering its decision not to
grant strong legal protection in two national forests for North
America&#8217;s only dragonfly classified as endangered. The Hine&#8217;s emerald
dragonfly was added to the federal endangered species list in 1995. It
lives in only a few Midwestern wetland areas. The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service designated critical habitat for [...]]]></description>
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