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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cultural Landscape Report on Quincy Unit available for public review through Sept. 11, 2009

CALUMET -- Keweenaw National Historical Park (NHP) invites public review of a Cultural Landscape Report and Environmental Assessment (CLR/EA) for the Quincy Unit. The report features historic research and documentation of the Quincy landscape; inventory and mapping of existing conditions; an analysis of landscape character and integrity. It proposes landscape treatment alternatives, assesses environmental impacts of the landscape treatment alternatives and proposes a recommended landscape treatment alternative.

During a walking tour of some ruins of the No. 6 site at the Quincy Mine in June 2008, Scott See, left foreground, and Erik Nordberg, on See's left, both Quincy Mine Hoist Association Board members, give some details of the miners' lives and how they used the Dry House, pictured in the background. Second from right, in the foreground, is Steve DeLong, landscape architect for Keweenaw National Historical Park. (Keweenaw Now file photo)

Public involvement is important to the success of this project and is welcomed during the review period which ends Sept. 11, 2009.

The document may be reviewed on-line. Click here and then click on the desired chapter. Reviewers may also view printed hard copies at the public libraries located in Houghton, Hancock and Calumet or at Park Headquarters.

This report is the result of a collaborative effort by park staff and a consulting team from Quinn Evans | Architects and Woolpert, LLC that involved working closely with stakeholders and public meetings.

Kim Hoagland, left, Michigan Tech University professor of history and historic preservation, and Erik Nordberg, Quincy Mine Hoist Association Board member, lead visitors on a tour of Company Housing at the Quincy Mine in July 2008. (Keweenaw Now file photo)*

The project team welcomes discussion and comments from all interested parties. Please contact Keweenaw NHP Landscape Architect Steve DeLong, at 337-1104 x 122 if you wish to know more about the CLR/EA effort.

*Editor's Note: See our July 8, 2008, article on walking tours last summer during the Quincy Anniversary events, including some historic photos.

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