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3:47 The Indian Termination Act of 1953 and the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 were conservative reactions to the liberal reforms of Franklin Roosevelt’s Indian New Deal of the 1930s.  The laws of the 1950s were designed to break up the Reservations and relocate Native peoples into urban areas.  In addition, they gave Congress plenary power, or absolute authority to force compliance on Native peoples without negotiation. At the top of the list for termination was the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, largely because of its wealth in forest land.  In 1954, Congress passed an act officially ter...

3:45 Carl Eliason’s hand-built 1924 motor toboggan is on display in Sayner’s Snowmobile Museum, and Eliason’s design was the prototype for the modern snowmobile.  While Eliason’s model became the most successful, it was not the first, and Northwoods residents experimented with all sorts of snow machines before settling on Eliason’s toboggan. One of the earliest attempts at over-snow travel accompanied the bicycle craze of the 1890s.  In Wisconsin people experimented with bicycles equipped with runners and gripping fins.  Unsurprisingly, this did not last long.  A few steam prope...

Humans have used wood as fuel for millennia. It has been used for cooking, heating, and more recently power production. I thought this topic would be

5:14 I have been watching a lot of meetings lately about natural resource issues, from wildlife hunting seasons to land acquisition or sale. Meetings have been a big part of my life in a career as a public servant, and it occurs to me that there are numerous simple ways that people can make their brief time testifying at the podium more effective. Here are a few. Avoid personal attacks – maybe a board member made a callous or personal remark or committed some other misstep. If you are calling attention to it as a point of order, that’s one thing, but if you are looking like you have an ax...

The gray wolf has been on and off the federal endangered species list for years. Right now, it’s off the list. But designation on the endangered species