Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
AREA RESIDENTS and officials with the Northwoods Land Trust gather at U.S. 2 and Center Drive in Kimball for the unveiling of sign marking the public access to the land bordering Interstate Falls. Among those attending the ceremony were, from left, Kimball supervisors Ray Kivi and John Smith, Kimball Town Chairman Ron Ahonen, former property owners Don and Nancy Siebert, Northwoods Land Trust Executive Director Bryan Pierce, Land Trust Board President Mary Schwaiger and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Grant Specialist Jillian Steffes.
KIMBALL, Wis - Area residents, officials and supporters of the Northwoods Land Trust gathered in Kimball Saturday for a ceremony marking the town's acceptance of land bordering Interstate Falls. The The Northwoods Land Trust, an Eagle River-based organization dedicated to conserving land, originally purchased the land from long-time owners Donald and Nancy Siebert before transferring ownership to the town of Kimball.
"I didn't want to commercialize (the property). I didn't want to build houses (on the land)," Donald Siebert said during the ceremony. "I wanted it to stay the way it is so any...
