Michigan

Latitude:

44.25

Longitude:

-85.50

GeoNames ID:

5 001 836

The Great Peshtigo Fire

On 8 October 1871 a brush fire took hold of northeastern Wisconsin that destroyed acres upon acres of woodland areas and settlements and took up to 1,500 lives.

Tags:

bushfire

farming

fire

forests

Themes:

Landscape Transformation

Regions:

Michigan

Wisconsin

Forget About It: Purposeful Ignorance (of Waste) in a City Nature Preserve

Perspectives Issue 2016/1

Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.

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The Great Peshtigo Fire

Forget About It: Purposeful Ignorance (of Waste) in a City Nature Preserve