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##Industrial Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin: Resources for Environmental Monitoring and Advocacy 

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**Table of Contents**



[Background Information](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#Background+Information)

[People and Places](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#People+and+Places) 

[Particulate Matter](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#Particulate+Matter)

* Background Information
* Tools 
* Monitoring 

[Advocacy Leverage Points](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#Advocacy+Leverage+Points)

[Action Oriented Resources](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#Action+Oriented+Resources) 

[Research in progress and Wikis](https://www.publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand#Research+in+Progress+and+wikis)  

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##Background Information
info to be transcluded from [Industrial Sand Mining on Nonmetallic Mining wiki] (https://publiclab.org/wiki/nonmetallicmining#Industrial+Sand+Mining) 



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##People and Places

The first permitting for Frac Sand mining in Wisconsin started in late 2006 (Pearson, 2015). Since then, thousands of people have participated in the fight against the frac sand mining industry's negative effects. Learn more about the groups involved and what they are doing on [this page](wiki/wisconsin). 

Cited References: 
Pearson, T. 2015.  [Contested Landscapes.](http://wisconsinfracsand.blogspot.com/) 

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##Particulate Matter
info transcluded from: 
* **Background Information** (www.publiclab.org/wiki/pm)

* **Tools for Monitoring ** (www.publiclab.org/wiki/pm-tools) 
tools for accountability & data collection

* [**Data Collection**]
Background & overview (https://publiclab.org/wiki/pm-monitoring)
*  regulations on monitoring, FRM/FEM (https://publiclab.org/wiki/pm-monitoring-regulations)

breakout pages:
  **  filter systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/active-pm)

  ** optical systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/optical-pm)

  ** passive systems (https://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm)

  ** Passive PM sub pages:
http://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm-deployment
https://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm-assembly
https://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm-imaging
https://publiclab.org/wiki/passive-pm-analysis

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##Advocacy Leverage Points
- [Relevant legislation in plain english](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-legislation)
- [Advocacy pathways people have used in the past](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-advocacy)

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##[Action Oriented Resources](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-action-oriented-resources)

The [Action Oriented Resources wiki](https://publiclab.org/wiki/frac-sand-action-oriented-resources) compiles many tools people can use in fighting the frac sand issue. There are workshops on picking advocacy strategies, FAQs for setting up an environmental monitoring program, resources work working with the media, tools on reporting pollution and contact information for state and county regulators. 


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##Research in progress and Wikis

power-tag to research notes and wikis tagged with "silica", "particulate matter", "dust", "wisconsin", and "frac sand"