Project Partners

Wings and Seeds – The Zaagkii Project is a collaborative effort between the Cedar Tree Institute, the United States Forest Service, and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.

Zaagkii Project sponsors include KBIC, USFS, Marquette County Juvenile Court, U.P. Children’s Museum and the Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies (NMU CNAS).

Zaagkii Project contributors include Marquette Community Foundation, M.E. Davenport Foundation, Kaufman Foundation, Phyllis and Max Reynolds Foundation and many individual supporters.

United State Department of Agriculture
United States Forest Service Eastern Region Milwaukee, WI.
Jan Schultz, Botany & Non-native Invasive Species Program Leader
414-297-1189

Warren C. Chris Swartz Jr., Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Tribal Chair
906-353-6623

KBIC Natural Resource Department (NRD)
Todd Warner, NRD Director
Evelyn Ravindran, NRD Natural Resources Specialist
906-524-5757

Susan Rabitaille, contractor Hiawatha National Forest Greenhouse Manager
906-228-8491

Hiawatha National Forest Office
Terry Miller, forest botanist Escanaba, MI
906-789-3319

Deb LeBlanc, West Side Plant Ecologist Munising, MI.
Monarch Workshops
906-387-251

Jim Hayward, Beekeeper Negaunee, MI
906-475-7582

Cedar Tree Institute
906-228-5494
cedartreeinstitute.org

Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies (NMU CNAS)
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies

Marquette County Juvenile Court:
www.co.marquette.mi.us/departments/courts/index.htm

Upper Peninsula Children’s Museum
www.upcmkids.org

Borealis Seed Company Big Bay, Mich.