Category Archives: Wetlands

The Peril Above Genoa

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Karl Garson

Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading →

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The Peril Above Genoa

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Karl Garson

Genoa is a village on the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The following essay on the environmental risks posed by the oil trains travelling along the shoreline of the Upper Mississippi states of Wisconsin and Minnesota was published in … Continue reading →

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Wisconsin’s February and the 2013 Mining Bill

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Karl Garson

To combat the symptoms of cabin fever that came packaged with this Wisconsin February I got out of the farmhouse and into the woods, an activity dating back to my childhood. My father was its chief proponent. We then lived … Continue reading →

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The River, Here and There

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Karl Garson

Published in an edited version in the La Crosse Tribune on Friday, February 24, 2012 under the headline “Like life, river tough to control. The entire essay appears here. A link to the La Crosse Tribune’s edited version is provided … Continue reading →

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Gogebic Taconite and Our Wetlands

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Karl Garson

Published in the Green Bay Press Gazette under the headline “Gogebic’s iron mine should be examined from all angles.” A link to the commentary is provided below. Count on the debate over the permitting process that would allow Gogebic Taconite … Continue reading →

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Gogebic Taconite: Their Mine, Our Water

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Karl Garson

Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Sunday, February 18, 2012. A link to the essay appears below. Water. You can’t live with it. You can’t live without it. If water is part of a river, stream or wetland that … Continue reading →

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The Land Shows Us the Way Back

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Karl Garson

Published in The Wisconsin State Journal on May 6, 2011 Land Shows Us the Way Back by Karl Garson “He’s overeducated,” is a sentence I hadn’t heard in a long time until I wandered recently into a local convenience store … Continue reading →

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