 He became a spokesperson for the group "Anishinabe Ogitchida" as they staged a protest stopping the tanker cars from carrying the sulfuric acid across the Bad River Ojibwe reservation in Ashland County, Wisconsin.The Bad River Train Blockade brought media scrutiny to EPA process and the eventual end to any attempts to revive the mine.Bresette lived long enough to see the Wisconsin legislature pass a mining moratorium to postpone the Crandon project indefinitely.