Up the Rouge! on WSDP

April 21, 2009

Here is a schedule of events connected with the book by Joel Thurtell and Patricia Beck, Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River: April 22, 10:30 a.m. Joel Thurtell to be featured on WSPD, 88.1 – Plymouth Canton High School Radio – interviewed by Deb Madonna about his new book Up the Rouge!: Paddling Detroit’s Hidden [...]

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Up the Rouge! at Allen Park Barnes & Noble

April 7, 2009

Next Up the Rouge! event: April 20, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Fairlane Green, 3120 Fairlane Drive, Allen Park. Co-authors Patricia Beck and Joel Thurtell will talk about their new book, Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River. They’ll also show a video with some of Beck’s photos and some commentary from the book, based on [...]

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Beaver logic

March 30, 2009

By Joel Thurtell John Hartig, the Detroit River refuge manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said beavers were last spotted in the Detroit River at least 75 years ago, possibly as long ago as a century. Their return signals that a multiyear effort to clean up the river has paid off. Detroit Free [...]

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Jump in the Rouge?

March 25, 2009

By Joel Thurtell If somebody would have told me 20 years ago that the Rouge River would be fishable and swimmable most of the time, I would not have believed it, and yet we have done it. – Jim Ridgway, executive director of the Alliance of Rouge Communities, former member of nonprofit Friends of the [...]

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Book signings and talks

March 17, 2009

Here is a schedule of events connected with the book by Joel Thurtell and Patricia Beck, Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River: April 1, 9 a.m., interview by Lisa Minnini on her Internet talk show, Navigating Change, at www.blogtalkradio.com/navigating_change April 1, 7 p.m., Hotel Grill, 2651 W Jefferson Ave., Trenton; sponsored by Friends of [...]

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Up the Rouge! — the book is out

January 19, 2009

Wayne State University Press has released Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River for sale. Soon you will be able to order it from this site. “If you want a sugar-coated, pretty picture book, Up the Rouge! might not be for you. But if you want to know the truth about a natural resource close [...]

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