MARQUETTE COUNTY — Kennecott Minerals announced its plans Monday for an alternative road from its proposed mine site to its mill in Humboldt.
It’s called Woodland Road and Kennecott has teamed up with A. Lindberg and Sons, The Michigan Forest Products Council and business and landowner, John Jilbert, to form Woodland Road LLC.
The proposed 22 mile road will start on the AAA road near the mine site, then will use existing logging and snowmobile trails to connect to Wolf Lake Road, then to County Rd. AAD and finally to County Rd. FY, where it hits US-41 one mile east of M-95 and near Kennecott’s proposed Humboldt Mill.
Obama Administration Takes Legal Action to Uphold 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects America’s pristine roadless national forest lands from new road building and timber harvesting.
http://www.ens-newswire.com:80/ens/aug2009/2009-08-13-092.asp
There is a vast network of logging roads currently along that 22 mile route. The Roadless Rule does not apply.