Our friend has a business making masonry stoves.  Waking up in the morning to a woodstove that may be out but is still radiating heat from last night's fire sure sounds nice.  Check his website out http://www.earthglowmasonry.com/

For info on the proposed Penokee open pit iron mine go to http://www.badriverwatershed.org/index.php/learn/potential-mine-information