The Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Monuments and Markers Advisory Committee will meet virtually on Google Meet on September 11, from 10 – 11 a.m.
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Colleen and Jack Erickson are the owners of Erickson Trucks-n-Parts on 4707 SE Frontage Road. Diana Panuncial
Jack and Colleen Erickson own Erickson Trucks-n-Parts, located at 4707 SE Frontage Road, just north of Highway 11 (Durand Avenue). Theyâre among the few property owners remaining in the area after the Village of Mount Pleasant cleared it to develop a tax incremental district specifically created to facilitate Foxconn in 2017 â back when promises of a massive factory that would employ upwards of 12,000 people was at least still being publicly considered and promoted.
Like other property owners who were relocated to make space for Foxconn, despite owning a business versus a home, the Ericksons were willing to consider an appropriate offer to move their business.
For those with a hankering to learn more about the great outdoors and garner the title of Certified Wyoming Master Naturalist, the opportunity has arrived. With the launch of Wyomingâs Master Naturalist Program, the state joins many others in hosting a program that trains participants to be environmental stewards and to teach that stewardship to others.
The Wyoming Naturalist Program is coordinated by a committee of state agencies and non-profits that includes Audubon Rockies, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Wyoming State Parks, the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute, and the University of Wyoming Extension. The training will include lessons in biodiversity, ecology, conservation, management, and interpretation. The 2021 program will include lessons hosted at Boysen State Park May 22-23.
Wisconsin residents outraged over Foxconn upheaval
Families were forced out of Mount Pleasant for a huge high-tech plant, but three years later it still has not been built
By Tom Perkins / The Guardian, MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisconsin
When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.
The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed high-tech plant owned by Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant that US President Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world.”