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DNR to Auction Surplus Public Land Starting Dec. 12
The Michigan DNR will offer surplus public land for sale by sealed-bid auction between Dec. 12, 2017, and Jan. 10, 2018.
The auction will feature 80 parcels located in counties mainly in central/northern Lower Michigan and in the Upper Peninsula, including Alpena, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Cheboygan, Dickinson, Gladwin, Iron, Kalkaska, Lake, Menominee, Midland, Montmorency, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Osceola, Oscoda and Roscommon counties.
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Michigan Alters Campground Reservation PolicyIn an effort to make it easier for more people to have a chance at securing campsites at many of the stateÃs most-visited parks, the Michigan DNR has put in place a new policy that encourages people to firm up their reservations further in advance of their planned camping dates. The new sliding modification and cancellation structure takes effect Nov. 1.
Campers still can make reservations up to six months in advance. Under the current policy, the cost to cancel or modify a camping reservation is $10. The new structure still will include the $10 modification and cancellation fee, but also will include an additional incremental fee based on the length of time between the date the initial reservation was made and the planned arrival date. That incremental fee will be determined by the length of time a reservation is held:
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The Michigan DNR announced today that a second hunter-harvested deer in Montcalm County is suspected positive for chronic wasting disease.
A sample has been sent to the U.S. Department of AgricultureÃs National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, for confirmation. If confirmed positive, the 1.5-year-old buck, harvested in Sidney Township, would be the 11th free-ranging deer in Michigan found to have CWD.
"The fact that we already have another positive deer within Montcalm County is of major concern," said Dr. Kelly Straka, DNR state wildlife veterinarian. "We strongly recommend hunters who harvest deer in Montcalm County have their deer tested. Deer with CWD can look perfectly healthy even though they are infected."
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State-Record Cisco Caught on Lake OttawaThe Michigan DNR confirmed a new state-record fish for cisco (formerly known as lake herring). This marks the second state-record fish caught in 2017.
The fish was caught Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. by Michael Lemanski of Florence, Wisconsin, on Lake Ottawa in Iron County in the western Upper Peninsula. Lemanski was still-fishing with a homemade jig. The fish weighed 6.36 pounds and measured 21.8 inches.
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Some 6,000 Stocked in Michigan Waters
The Michigan DNR and several partners released nearly 6,000 juvenile lake sturgeon into various public waters across the state this summer and fall in an effort to rehabilitate this culturally significant fish species.
The table below shows which agencies stocked fish, how many were stocked, and the date and location of each stocking effort.