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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Study Examines Cultural Value Of Declining Lake Ice As Eagle River Ice Castle Canceled Again
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:08
	Publish Date:		2020-02-06 05:56:00
	Description:		Michael Anderson uses a long bit on a drill to bust through the ice on Silver Lake in Eagle River. “That would be a good depth for an ice castle right now,” Anderson says, measuring about 15 inches of ice. That’s plenty for harvesting and forming into blocks for ice-castle building. But there’s a problem. A deep layer of slush on Silver Lake makes it inaccessible to the machines and trucks needed to transport ice blocks. Without the ice blocks, there’s no ice castle downtown, and that means Anderson has to break the bad news to a lot of people. “You walk around town and people would be asking you, the big question was, ‘Is there going to be an ice castle? When is there going to be an ice castle? What can we do to make this ice castle happen?’ Everyone just enjoys it,” he says. It’s the second consecutive winter without the castle, a magnificent, brightly-lit structure usually rising above downtown. Anderson is the Eagle River Fire Chief and in charge of the castle. But, due to
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