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Workers arrange woody debris in the North Branch of the Au Sable River. (Michigan DNR photo)Fisheries managers have been adding woody cover, often whole trees, to trout streams for close to a century. During the 1930s, the federal Civilian Conservation Corps spent countless hours building what have come to be known as lunker structures in some of the states most notable trout streams.
Over the course of the last two decades, the Michigan DNR and fisheries conservation groups have reinvigorated the campaign to increase woody cover in streams, led by efforts along the Au Sable River that use helicopters to drop whole trees into the various branches of one of Americas most famous trout streams.
But the placement of woody debris in streams can provide benefits in addition to giving trout a place to hide. Properly placed, woody cover can improve the function of streams, including helping to manage and move sediment that covers up gravel valuable spawning and aquatic insect habitat in the stream.
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If you want a better access to Eagle and Juno lakes near Edwardsburg, make plans to attend a public hearing Thursday night.
The meeting will be held at Our lady of the Lake Church Social Hall on U.S. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m.
The Michigan DNR has offered to purchase the former Dock property across the street from the existing Eagle Lake ramp on Eagle Lake Road and hopes to convert it into a multi-functional access site for both Eagle and the Juno/Christian/Painter chain of lakes.
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Michigans DNR transition to a new vendor will have some short-term impacts to customers making campground reservations beginning next month.
Reservations for campsites typically have a six-month window for advance booking. However, as the transition date approaches, this window will shrink. Campsite reservations can be made in the current system, either online or through the call center, for stays through the end of October 2013. Reservations in the new system will be accepted beginning November 2013.
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Michiganders have one chance to defend the right to hunt, fish and trap from out-of-state anti-hunters for good.
Scientific Wildlife Management legislation before the state senate will make sure that game management decisions are made by sound science, not ballot-box biology. If sportsmen don't take advantage of this opportunity, anti groups will come back to our state again and again to attack those rights to hunt, fish and trap.
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The Michigan DNR announced the daily limit for walleyes in Michigan's waters of Lake Erie will remain at six through April 30, 2014.
In 2011 Michigan adopted a process for setting creel limit regulations that allows the DNR to use real-time population data instead of using year-old survey results. This process parallels one adopted by Ohio in 2010.
"This regulations process is critical to helping us manage walleyes in Lake Erie in a timely manner," said DNR Fisheries Divisions Lake Erie Basin Coordinator Todd Kalish. "In order to do that, we have to set regulations in March instead of the previous autumn."