[CPEO-BIF] Tribe to use phytoremediation at Eastlake Brownfield site, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Manistee tribe to use donated trees in contamination cleanup effort

By Eric Gaertner
Muskegon Chronicle (MI)
May 8, 2012

MANISTEE, MI – The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is ready to  
turn a gift of trees into a potential long-term benefit for an  
environmentally contaminated site near Manistee Lake.

The Manistee-based tribe, with several hundred members who live in  
Muskegon County, began receiving a donation of willow saplings on  
Monday from the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a nonprofit  
organization that collects and archives ancient native tree genetics  
from the wild.

The tribe is set to plant the 5,800 willow saplings in an area in the  
Eastlake Brownfield site.

The goal for planting the fast-growing trees at the site is for the  
roots to help pull the toxins out of the soil. Archangel Ancient Tree  
Archive creates clones from the world’s remaining source of champion  
old-growth trees.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/05/ 
manistee_tribe_to_use_donated.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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