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Meeting to be held on Detroit-to-Wisconsin trail

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 10:21 p.m.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — A meeting is planned for later this month to discuss an initiative being pushed by Gov. Rick Snyder to create a hiking and biking trail that would stretch from Belle Isle park in Detroit to

Ironwood on the Wisconsin boundary in the western Upper Peninsula.

The Mining Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15xzQq7 ) the trails summit will be held March 18 at Northern Michigan University’s Bottum University Center.

Snyder made the proposal in November, saying he wanted Michigan to become the Trail State.

The governor directed the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to work with private and nonprofit partners to make the full route a reality. The project would require more than 200 miles of new trails.

DNR Director Keith Creagh (KRAY) says preliminary work on developing the trail is under way.

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donnaw
Mar 8, 2013 at 5:23 a.m.
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cynical eye.. Maybe if you stopped watching MSNBC you might get a dose of the real world.

cynicaleye
Mar 7, 2013 at 1:58 p.m.
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Apparently you all don't know how a trail like that will revitalize the towns it goes through. If you'd read or watch something other than FAUX News, you'd know.

Badgerlvr
Mar 7, 2013 at 6:27 a.m.
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It'll certainly help those who want to leave Detroit.

oldvet
Mar 7, 2013 at 6:08 a.m.
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Just another way to spend money borrowed from the Chinese

donnaw
Mar 7, 2013 at 5:37 a.m.
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Doesn't he know there is a sequester going on and he is supposed to take things away?

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