clean energy future

Frac Sand’s Wild Refugees

March 29, 2015
Brian DeVore
agriculture, clean energy future, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, Wildlife
erosion, frac sand mining, fracking Bob Christie, hydrofracturing, Land Stewardship Project, mine reclamation, overburden, wildlife, Wisconsin frac sand

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project There’s a farm near the Jackson County, Wis., community of Hixton that is in the process of being destroyed by being turned into a frac sand…
Sand, Land & Land Stewardship

April 21, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, clean air, Clean Energy, clean energy development, clean energy future, Energy, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
Citizens' Frac Sand Summit, extreme energy, frac sand mining, frac sand moratorium, frac sand petition, Gov. Mark Dayton, hydraulic fracturing, karst geology, Land Stewardship Project, People's EIS Scoping Report, soil health

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project For longer than I can remember, my family has taken the same route from our farm in southeast Minnesota to visit my grandparents in north-central Wisconsin.…