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Keweenaw Peninsula, Mohawk Mining, Wolverine Mine - Gay, MI and the effort to save whitefish spawning habitat on Buffalo Reef: Excellent story by the MDNR PR guy, historian, and former Marquette newspaper legend John Pepin

Keweenaw Peninsula, Mohawk Mining, Wolverine Mine – Gay, MI and the effort to save whitefish spawning habitat on Buffalo Reef: Excellent story by the MDNR PR guy, historian, and former Marquette newspaper legend John Pepin

The century-long journey from Mohawk to Buffalo Reef

By JOHN PEPIN Michigan Department of Natural Resources

In 1896, northeast of Calumet on the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula, lumberman Ernest Koch was cutting a wood road through the trees and brush when, like television’s Jed Clampett, he accidentally stumbled onto a valuable find.

Koch discovered an important native copper ore body in defiance of…