Big Slough boat landing, located on Hwy. 82 near the Black Hawk bridge and managed by the McGregor District of the Upper Mississippi River National and Fish Refuge, will remain
Film will highlight local public lands (3/17/2021)
This past weekend, a small group of local teens and young adults gathered to ice fish at Half Moon Landing, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service boat landing on the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Kellogg. While a dozen or so local anglers spread out on the ice to claim their fishing holes, a camera crew followed the group of kids as they drilled holes, baited hooks and sat on five-gallon buckets waiting patiently for a tug on their lines. The group was participating in a documentary film project being coordinated by Project Get Outdoors (Project GO), a Wabasha-based non-profit organization.
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Conservation Groups Sue Feds To Block $500M Power Line
Law360 (February 10, 2021, 6:36 PM EST) A coalition of conservation groups said in a Wisconsin federal court suit Wednesday that two federal agencies unlawfully gave their blessings to a 102-mile, $500 million high-voltage transmission line project that crosses through a migratory bird refuge and other scenic terrains.
The National Wildlife Refuge Association, Driftless Area Land Conservancy, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation and Defenders of Wildlife filed the suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Rural Utilities Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The groups contend the agencies greenlit the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Project despite it being an unnecessary power infrastructure that will disturb the Upper Mississippi River National.