Michigan Parks Use Sticker Plan Seeks $2 Auto Fee
Conservation officials outline a parks use sticker program to fund Michigan state parks. The Commission approved the general plan and will ask the Legislature for authority to set a $2 per automobile use fee with a smaller daily option. The annual sticker would cover all state parks for one year. A formal request will be submitted to the Legislature in the current session.
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Conservation Department
Michigan
State Conservation Commission
Lansing
Conservation Training for Game Division Staff
The annual in service training session for the Conservation Department's game division runs January 21 to 24 at Higgins Lake training school. Participants from other divisions and agencies discuss deer and pheasant management, waterfowl surveys, legal issues, forestry programs, and law enforcement.
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Conservation Department
Game Division
Campsites Availability in Michigan State Parks
Michigan's 58 parks offer 7377 total camp sites with 4744 camped sites equipped for electrical service. Northern lower peninsula leads with 3887 sites, 2909 electric. southern lower peninsula has 2292 sites with 11 parks offering electricity. upper peninsula parks total 1198 sites, 459 without electricity. In 1958 overcrowding forced 30,000 to 36,000 visitors away.
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Michigan
Conservation Department
Parks Division
Lower Peninsula
Upper Peninsula
State closes on 66 acres at Fish Point Saginaw Bay
The state Conservation Commission authorized the purchase of 66 acres of hunting lands on Saginaw Bay at Fish Point Wildlife Area, securing three miles of bay frontage. The plan also covers a Bristol Lake fishing site in Berry County and 809 acres in six southern Michigan game areas using Pittman Robertson funds.
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State Conservation, Commission
Saginaw Bay
Fish Point
Bristol Lake
Berry County
Michigan
Pittman-Robertson
Fort Area Opens To Public After July 1
The Fort Area near Battle Creek and Kalamazoo will open for public use after July 1. The two square mile site, leased from the U S Army, requires fencing and development funded in the 1967 68 budget. The land was approved by the state Conservation Commission at its January 11 meeting in Lansing for recreational use.
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Fort. Custer
Battle’ Creek
Kalamazoo
State Conservation. Commission
Lansing
Conservation Department
U. S. Army
Army
Bears may aid salmon by cleaning moldy fish, says professor
University of Michigan professor Don W Baxter argues Kodiak bears help salmon rivers by removing dead fish and moldy matter that spread saprolegnia a water mold harming eggs. Baxter notes bears value as hunting trophies but sees ecological benefit in scavenging through spawning runs.
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University of Michigan
Don W. Baxter
of Natural Resources
Kodiaje Island
Alaska
Professor Baxter
Baxter
Tobin
Alaskan
Lamprey Threat Forces Suspension of Rainbow Trout Season
Michigan anglers face disrupted steelhead fishing as sea lamprey predation prompts the Conservation Department to drop the two week spring rainbow trout season in northern peninsular streams except designations in upper areas. Rocking populations and spawning runs drive this protective measure aimed at boosting rainbow numbers.
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Michigan
Great Lakes
Lowey
Peninsula
Gerald H. Eddy
Peninsua
Great Lake
Great ‘Lakes
Lower Peninsula
Lake Superior
Upper Peninsula
Timber bids invited as state auctions rise in value
The Conservation Commission will hold timber auctions in district forest offices with bids totaling about 26 129 dollars. The sale includes 6 087 cards of pulp 246 000 board feet of sawings 2 100 posts and 100 ties and follows January 1956 sales of 12 653 dollars. The note highlights growing forest value and gradual ecological importance of aspen in state timber policy.
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Conservation Commission
Herve
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