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The Buzzards Have Landed! tells the real story of how a British mining company muscled its way into a small rural community in northern Wisconsin to build a gold, copper and silver mine on the banks of the Flambeau River. Stories of the grassroots resistance movement, protests, arrests, state and local governmental actions, mining company maneuvers and lawsuits abound. The book also includes numerous charts and graphs demonstrating the negligible impact of the mine on the local economy and the serious nature of ongoing pollution problems at the mine site. Authors Roscoe Churchill and Laura Furtman combine human interest with hard facts to create a story certain to be of interest to environmentalists, Native American communities, sociologists, lawmakers, environmental attorneys, economists, educators, historians … and anyone who enjoys reading a colorful story! Book information: Hard cover, 8.5 x 11 inches; 1,285 pages, includes many photos, newspaper clippings and references to Wisconsin’s mining laws; CD-ROM with mining company reports, legal briefs, documents drafted by state agencies, financial spreadsheets and correspondence between mining company attorneys, government officials and private citizens; detailed index, references and so much more. |
Last updated 09/06/2007