Efficiency Progress In State Dept
Secretary James M. Hare reports the State Department operates this year with 8 percent fewer employees while maintaining essential services. The agency processes drivers licenses and vehicle registrations, licenses boats, registers trademarks, supervises elections, issues private detective licenses, registers legislative agents, and more. Through streamlined procedures, updated equipment, and reorganized staffing, manpower fell from 849 to 793 nationwide, avoiding layoffs as older staff leave or move to other jobs.
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Lansing
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James M. Hare
Department of State
Hare
Michigan Bears Granted Big Game Status With Stamp Requirement
Michigan enhances bear status as big game. An amendment requires a $2.00 bear stamp on small game licenses for bear hunting. A metal seal accompanies the stamp, similar to the deer seal. Bears may be hunted on deer licenses without a stamp. In the Upper Peninsula, early bear season overlaps with small game. hunters must attach the stamp to 1958 licenses. Stamps and seals available by mail or at Conservation Department offices and district HQs after August 10.
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Houghton
Hancock
U.S.41
Upper Peninsula
John C. Mackie
Portage Ship Canal
Keweenaw Peninsula
Michigan
Peninsula
Conservation Department
Lansing
Highway Department
Mackinac City
The Luck Of The Angler Versus Skill And Patience
The piece argues success in fishing comes from technique and perseverance more than luck. Experienced anglers study lure action and casts, slow retrieves, and precise casts to gain strikes, while novices tend to reel too fast and miss opportunities.
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Waterfowl Habitat Projects Expanded Across Michigan
The Conservation Department advances multiple waterfowl initiatives at Swan Creek Allegan County St. Clair Flats and Fish Point in Allegan and neighboring areas. Projects include 585 acres at Swan Creek with dikes marshes and a pump station while St. Clair Flats develops 425 acres on Harsens Island and 550 acres into permanent wet marsh. Shiawassee River state game area aims for 10 000 acres with dikes ditches and water level control structures to create roosting pools and abundant food.
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Conservation Department
Swan Creek Wildlife Experiment
Allegan County
St. Clair Flats
Fish Point
Shiawassee River
Swan Creek
Kalamazoo River
Fennville State Game Area
St. Clair Flats Wildlife Area
Harsens Island
Department
Shiawassee
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