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		<title>Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Rights of Nature Bills</title>
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	&#160; *photo credit: Rep. Vincent Miresse &#160; Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Rights of Nature Bills &#160; Wisconsin legislators celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day by introducing a package of bills at the State Capital that will go a long way to protecting our fragile and deteriorating environment in Wisconsin. Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) who is from the Menominee Nation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Backyard Incident</title>
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	&#160; Every year a pair of robins take up residence on a back porch light outside our family back door. I am not sure why they chose this spot since it is precariously close to our comings and goings. They get upset at us every time a family member goes in or out the door. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WE NEED THE AIR OF THE TREES</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This past October I had the opportunity to tour the Menominee Tribal Enterprise sawmill located in Neopit, Wisconsin on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The logs that come into the sawmill are harvested from the 220,000 acre Menominee Forest. They have been harvested in a sustained-yield manner. Since 1854 two and one-half billion board feet of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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