“We never could have slayed this behemoth buckthorn without his expert chainsaw skills. Check out that stump! Who knew they even got so big? We estimate this bad boy to have been at least 120 years old.” Brigid Reina, Summer Intern

For 2015, the MIWP has hired two interns, Rebecca Flesh and Brigid Reina, well trained and articulate Northland College students whose jobs are to act as a resource to island landowners; to identify problem areas; to publicize their program and availability; and to do the actual cutting and treatment. While these interns technically are employed by the Town of La Pointe, the MIWP provides their salaries in the form of grants and an outright gift of $10,000; we also provide supervision, aka the unstoppable Bonnie Matuseski, as well as lakeside housing.