The Marquette Mining Journal reports that Senator Carl Levin intends to reintroduce wilderness legislation for the 11,000+ Beaver Basin area of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.  The plan was killed as part of the Omnibus Lands Bill rejected by Congress in the current legislative session.  Excerpt and link:

“While it is disappointing that the lands bill containing the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore wilderness language has been blocked from Senate passage this year, I plan to reintroduce the Beaver Basin Wilderness Act early next year for consideration in the new Congress,” Levin said.

The National Park Service has been working to finalize the establishment of the Beaver Basin Wilderness Area, which is one component of the park’s General Management Plan completed and approved in 2004, after five years of planning and extensive public involvement.

“We have worked very hard to address all of the public concerns that were raised during that planning process, including limiting the total acreage, allowing for the continued use of electric motors on Little Beaver and Beaver lakes and ensuring that motorized boats on Lake Superior will continue to be able to beach adjacent to the wilderness area,” said Pictured Rocks Superintendent Jim Northup.

Northup said the wilderness designation involves only 16 percent of the total acreage within the national lakeshore.

Full story:

http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519748.html

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