A Protect the Earth Summit sponsored by Yellow Dog Summer, Keepers of the Water, and Students Against Sulfide Mining was held this weekend, August 2 and 3. The summit began with workshops and a rally and culminated with a walk to Eagle Rock on the Yellow Dog Plains, accompanied by blueberry picking. Nearly 140 citizens from Upper and Lower Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario attended the walk to Eagle Rock.

“This weekend’s Earth Summit marked a turning point for the movement to protect our land and water from metallic sulfide and uranium mining. Wisconsin stopped metallic sulfide mining, and the power of that movement was realized in the diversity and unity of the local people, and diversity and unity are exactly what Protect the Earth gatherings are all about. Protect the Earth proved that dangerous mining is not a done deal in the UP, Minnesota or anywhere, as long as communities are willing to work together.” Gabriel Caplett (Yellow Dog Summer).

Click here to read Gabriel’s letter to the editor in the Marquette Mining Journal