A successful reclamation site near the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community reservation has been replanted with native flowers and trees. The site, right on the shore of Lake Superior, used to be a barren dump of stamp sands—the rock leftover from processing copper ore.

L’Anse, Michigan, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, native plants, Lake Superior, copper mining, U.P., stamp sands, restoration, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Great Lakes, mine pollution

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