Scio Township, Washtenaw County, residents oppose rezoning to make way for two condo and housing complexes. Contact: Kathy Knol, 734-665-3383, e-mail Kpknol@aol.com. Suburban Detroit’s Brownstown Township residents oppose rezoning for a shopping center and housing complex. Contact: Sue Harris, 734-692-0398. Elmwood Township, Grand Traverse County, residents oppose rezoning of agricultural land for a 78-unit condominium project. Contact: Steve and Pei-Shan VanZoeren, 231-929-9669, e-mail steve@anthology.com. Ann Arbor residents oppose a 190-unit luxury condominium complex over the Huron River. Contact: Bill Hanson, 734-761-2030, e-mail willhan@aol.com. Citizens fighting Wal-Mart location on wetlands and floodplain near East Lansing. Contact: Pat Hagen, 517-347-4138. Citizens across the Traverse City region oppose a multi-million dollar county plan to build a four-lane freeway through the Boardman River Valley. Contact: Kelly Thayer, 231-882-4723 x13, e-mail trans@mlui.org. Petoskey citizens create a plan to improve local roads instead of building a bypass through historic farmsteads. Contact: Debbie Rohe, 231-347-7327, e-mail drohe@freeway.net. Grand Rapids citizens passed a new millage to expand public transit and limit sprawl. Contact: David Bulkowski or Kevin Wisselink, 616-949-1100. A plan to build a bypass around Grand Haven through Michigan’s most productive farmland will also degrade air quality along the smoggy west coast. Contact: Thom Peterson, 616-846-8875, e-mail petersont@grps.k12.mi.us. Alpena residents defeated a plan to relocate US-23, which would have destroyed more wetlands than any other public works project ever proposed in the state. Contact: Paul Bruce, 517-739-3640. Plans to widen I-75 and I-94 in Detroit would destroy more neighborhoods and rob citizens of funding for public transit. Contacts: Janice Joseph, MOSES, 313-838-3190, and Karen Kendrick-Hands, 313-885-7588, e-mail kdkhands@voyager.net. Citizens for Logical Land Use in Chelsea working to prevent a costly and damaging re-routing of M-52. Contact: Liz Wilson, 734-433-9029, e-mail rli@ic.net. A multi-community effort working to stop a proposed $1 billion highway (I-73) between Jackson and Toledo. Contact: Rob Oreskovich, 734-854-8395, e-mail roboreskovich@yahoo.com, Web site www.stopi73.com. Milan Township residents won a referendum stopping conversion of 1,000 acres of farmland into an auto shipping facility. Contact: Carol McCrae-Hokenson, 734-439-8414, Web site http://users.dundee. net/railyard. Citizens of the Holland Area Organized for Intelligent Control of Explosive Growth (CHOICE) is working to prevent the city from annexing and providing costly services to developers of 800 acres of agricultural land south of town. Contact Steve McNeal, 616-751-7266. Iron mine expansion near Ishpeming in the central U.P. threatens 87 acres of wetlands and 8,288 feet of streams. Contact: Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition in Marquette, 906-228-8477. Citizens in Berrien and Van Buren counties sue Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to keep a protected dune off-limits to mining. Contact: Preserve the Dunes, 312-922-6050, Web site www.daac.com. Community holding off a golf course planned for a wetland area in Ray Township, Macomb County. Contact: Macomb Land Conservancy, 810-784-5848, e-mail bbolton@ees.eesc.com. Condominium development threatens coastal wetlands at Bete Grise on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Contact: Tony DeFalco, National Wildlife Federation, 734-769-3351, e-mail defalco@nwf.org. The last mile of natural shoreline on the Detroit River is under severe development threat thanks to a DEQ permit. Contact: Bruce Jones, 734-676-6657, e-mail Bjones6657@aol.com. Friends of the Crystal River continues its 14-year fight to save a magnificent stream and wetlands from becoming part of a golf course. Contact: Chris Anderlik, 231-922-5115, e-mail anderlik@traverse.com. Local government and property owners team up to make Ludington State Park off-limits to oil and gas developers. Contact: Arlin Wasserman, 231-271-3683, e-mail merc@mlui.org. Mecosta and Isabella County residents organizing to protect their property rights and the environment from an influx of hog factories. Contact: S.P.L.A.S.H (Saginaw Bay Watershed Protecting Land, Air, Streams, and Headwaters) at 517-382-7481, e-mail lcramer@rural-net.com. South Central Michigan residents organizing to protect their property rights and the environment from an influx of dairy factories. Contact: Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan, 517-383-2503, Web site www.eccscm.org. Ionia County residents fighting hog factories. Contact: Bernadette Fletcher, 517-855-2371, e-mail sarafle@iserv.net. Residents resist new dairy factory in Ganges Township, Allegan County. Contact: e-mail chesterwillemstyn@hotmail.com. Dairy factory with up to 3,500 cows coming to Fennville, south of Holland. Contact: Matt Antkoviak, attorney, 616-673-8468, e-mail mantkoviak@yahoo.com. Dairy factory in Pavilion Township, Kalamazoo County, expands despite repeated environmental violations and unsafe E. coli bacteria counts downstream. Contact: David Moore of the local citizens’ Environmental Task Force, 616-626-0125, or e-mail Jolene White at DaunJolene@aol.com. Citizens fighting a Cadillac company applying for a permit to burn waste tires for fuel. Contact: Cadillac Area Citizens for Clean Air, 231-779-8150, e-mail petroart@michweb.net. Hazardous waste injection well and associated high-risk truck traffic proposed for congested area near Detroit Metro Airport. Contact: Verle Wilhide, 734-941-3149. Landfill reopening in Gibraltar despite environmental noncompliance. Contact: Kathy LaPointe, 734-676-3681, e-mail klapoint@ford.com. Ongoing local struggle in Monroe and Washtenaw counties against dessication of residential wells and surface water contamination from a deep sand and gravel quarry. Contact: Intercounty Citizens Action Group, 734-587-3631, e-mail wtobler@tdi.net. A coalition of groups working to close the Hamtramck Medical Waste Incinerator, which state regulators are allowing to operate under relaxed standards. Contact: Rob Cedar, Hamtramck Environmental Action Team, 313-365-4722, e-mail robc313@aol.com. Washtenaw County citizens fighting to clean up extensive dioxin contamination of groundwater, attributed to the Gellman Sciences factory. Contacts: Roger Rayle, 734-761-8932, or Pat Ryan, 734-662-4108. The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition is working on several cases of industrial pollution and state regulatory neglect in the Detroit area. Contact: 313-821-1064, e-mail dwdwej@aol.com. Citizens who have been working for more than 14 years to clean up the Kalamazoo River were shocked recently when DEQ director Russell Harding pulled the state’s project manager off the job at the polluting companies’ request. Contact: Kalamazoo Watershed Council, 616-373-1157. —Compiled by Patty Cantrell