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MUCC AND THE NWTF IMPROVE HABITAT IN THE GRAYLING STATE FOREST
This past weekend, volunteers with MUCC’s Wildlife Habitat Program collaborated with the Northern Lower Peninsula region’s National Wild Turkey Federation Biologist (NWTF), Ryan Boyer, to improve wildlife habitat in the Grayling State Forest. This project is part of a larger Wildlife Habitat Grant partnership involving NWTF, the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS), Whitetails Unlimited, and Michigan…
Read MoreIn the Field: Starting a Cooperative
by Anna Mitterling, Wildlife Cooperative Coordinator, MUCC Wildlife cooperatives provide great opportunities for shaping what management looks like over a landscape. These groups consist of landowners and hunters who share a common interest in surrounding wildlife habitat and harvest management. While the early stages of cooperative development take a lot of time and energy, it…
Read MoreCHUMMING BANNED ON TROUT STREAMS STATEWIDE
As of the last NRC meeting on July 14th, chumming regulation in Michigan have been updated to prohibit chumming with organic material on types 1, 2, 3, and 4, streams. The NRC and DNR received public comments for a 3-month period and the NRC received comments at fourteen meetings before coming to this conclusion. Earlier…
Read MoreGLASSEN SCHOLARS VOLUNTEER WITH MUCC AT THE ROSE LAKE STATE GAME AREA
Last weekend, volunteers including four of MSU’s Glassen Scholars improved rabbit habitat in the Rose Lake State Game Area. The group of nine total volunteers and DNR Wildlife staff built four large brush piles along the edges of a small wildlife opening. The area’s DNR Wildlife Technician, Chad Krumnauer, and I spent half a day…
Read MoreIn the Field: How to Talk to Neighbors about Habitat
by Anna Mitterling, Wildlife Cooperative Coordinator, MUCC It is usually pretty easy to talk to your hunting buddy about habitat. Your vocabulary is similar, your goals are similar, and your motives are similar. But how do you start up a conversation with your neighbor about expanding quality habitat if they don’t hunt what you do,…
Read MoreINVASIVE SPECIES WATCHLIST: KUDZU
Some find it incredible, others call it a disaster, but either way Kudzu, a creeping, crawling, climbing perennial vine is terrorizing native plants all over the southeastern United States and is making its way north. Kudzu is an invasive species that is native to Japan and southeast China. It made its way into the United…
Read MoreVOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE WILDLIFE HABITAT IN AUGUST 2016
Volunteers with MUCC’s Wildlife Habitat Program completed the second phase of an elk habitat maintenance project in the Pigeon River Country State Forest last weekend. The first phase of this project was completed in mid-May. The four-acre opening has now been cleared of encroaching timber and will be ready to be disked and planted next…
Read MoreMUCC AND THE METRO WEST STEELHEADERS CLEAN UP THE CLINTON RIVER
Last weekend, volunteers from the Metro West Steelheaders and the Clinton River Watershed Council teamed up with MUCC to clean up a section of the Clinton River. This was the third annual cleanup at Yates Park on the Clinton River. In prior years, volunteers removed a total of 700lbs of trash and debris from the…
Read MoreBILL DEMMER NAMED CONSERVATIONIST OF THE YEAR
Lansing – Conservationist Bill Demmer was honored by Michigan United Conservation Clubs as its Conservationist of the Year during its Conservation Awards Luncheon and Annual Convention, where he also delivered the keynote address. “In the time that I have had the privilege to work alongside Bill I am often struck by the fact that I have…
Read MoreIn the Field: Summer Cooperative Activities
by Anna Mitterling, Wildlife Cooperative Coordinator, MUCC It is summer time! Vacations, bonfires, late nights, hammocks…. Gotta love summer! But how can you capture some of the summer fun and create a cooperative activity that can help build relationships, and recruit new members? I have a few ideas! Let me know yours, and I will…
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