2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 22:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Tribe to use phytoremediation at Eastlake Brownfield site, Michigan
 
Manistee tribe to use donated trees in contamination cleanup effort

By Eric Gaertner
Muskegon Chronicle (MI)
May 8, 2012

MANISTEE, MI – The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is ready to turn a gift of trees into a potential long-term benefit for an environmentally contaminated site near Manistee Lake.

The Manistee-based tribe, with several hundred members who live in Muskegon County, began receiving a donation of willow saplings on Monday from the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit organization that collects and archives ancient native tree genetics from the wild.

The tribe is set to plant the 5,800 willow saplings in an area in the Eastlake Brownfield site.

The goal for planting the fast-growing trees at the site is for the roots to help pull the toxins out of the soil. Archangel Ancient Tree Archive creates clones from the world’s remaining source of champion old-growth trees.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/05/ manistee_tribe_to_use_donated.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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