Posts Tagged ‘Fishing’
The summer volunteer event you’ve been waiting for! Join us for our Annual Manistee River Clean-Up on July 15
Join MUCC’s On the Ground (OTG) program in partnership with Steelhead Manifesto and the US Forest Service Adopt-a-Forest program as we clean-up trash in and around the Manistee River starting and ending at the High Bridge Boat Launch in Brethren. Volunteers are needed on Saturday, July 15 from 9am to noon (please arrive 5-10 minutes…
Read MoreDiscover Fishing at the Pier in Traverse City-Come join us!
Need something to do on the Saturday of free fishing weekend? Going to be in the Traverse City area? Join us and our partners on June 10th at the Discovery Pier, just north of Downtown Traverse City for a free family fishing program to learn the ins and outs of fishing from shore. More details…
Read MoreCommercial Guiding Bills: What’s Myth and What’s Fact?
The Senate Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee passed out an MUCC-supported commercial guiding package (SBs 103,104 and 105) today. Commercial guiding in Michigan is woefully unregulated. Nothing in state law prevents a serial poacher or felon from guiding. For more than 10 years, Michigan United Conservation Clubs has worked to provide much-needed sideboards for an…
Read MoreOn the Ground: Volunteers remove hundreds of pounds of trash from the Clinton River Watershed
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, 28 volunteers gathered at Beaudette Park in Pontiac, Michigan to take part in the Clinton River Watershed Clean-Up hosted by MUCC’s On the Ground (OTG) program and the Metro-West Steelheaders. Once the clean-up started, volunteers broke off into smaller groups to remove trash from around the park including the forested…
Read MoreOn the Ground: Volunteers Improve Fish Habitat in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
On Saturday, March 4, 2023, 30 volunteers joined MUCC’s OTG program in partnership with the UP Resource Conservation and Development Council (UP RC&D) and Alger Conservation District for a volunteer stewardship day at Au Train Lake in Alger County. Volunteers created brush bundles/course woody debris structures that will be deployed throughout the lake, helping to…
Read MoreOutdoorama Starts Next Week
It is almost that time of year again. Time for the annual staff pilgrimage to Novi for Outdoorama. Outdoorama has been going on in the Detroit area for the last several decades. This year it is once again combined with the Lakefront and Cottage living show. Your admission to one of these shows gives you…
Read MoreOn the Ground Volunteer Opportunity at Au Train Lake
Join MUCC’s OTG program in creating brush bundles/woody debris structures at Au Train Lake to improve fish habitat and population numbers! The project is a part of a larger initiative to work directly with riparian landowners along the shoreline of Au Train Lake and to communicate the importance of shoreline vegetation and in-water habitat structures.…
Read MoreDNR using non-disclosure agreement to thwart growing opposition in fish negotiations
On Monday, a conservation coalition fighting to protect recreational fishing in Michigan’s Great Lakes filed a rebuttal to state and tribal filings in federal court (click to read). The Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources (CPMR) filed to intervene in the ongoing Consent Decree negotiations between five sovereign Native American Tribes, the State of Michigan and…
Read MoreAngling, conservation organizations file motion to intervene in ongoing consent decree
A coalition of conservation organizations filed a motion to intervene Wednesday in the ongoing consent decree negotiations between the State of Michigan, federal government and five sovereign Native American tribes. Judge Paul Maloney will decide on the motion, filed in a Western Michigan federal court (click to view the filing brief). The Coalition to Protect…
Read More‘Evolving military training methods’ cited for possible 162,000-acre lease expansion on state lands
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced an extension of the public comment deadline surrounding the 162,000-acre Camp Grayling lease expansion on Michigan public lands. A public meeting will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Kirtland Community College (4800 W. 4 Mile Road, Grayling). Members of the public are welcome to attend and…
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