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The following is a list of Michigan state game and wildlife areas found throughout the U.S. state of Michigan. The state has a system of publicly owned lands managed primarily for wildlife conservation, wildlife observation, recreational activities, and hunting. Some areas provide opportunities for camping, hiking, cross-country skiing, fishing ...
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area (/ ˈ p ɔɪ n t m w iː ˈ j eɪ /; point mwee-YAY or moo-LAY) is a state game area in the U.S. state of Michigan. [2] It encompasses 7,483 acres (30.3 km 2) of hunting, recreational, and protected wildlife and wetland areas at the mouth of the Huron River at Lake Erie, as well as smaller outlying areas within the Detroit River.
The Michigan Wetland Management District consists of a 14-county area and includes three waterfowl production areas (WPAs): the 160-acre (0.65 km 2) Schlee WPA and the 138-acre (0.56 km 2) Mahan WPA in Jackson County and the 77-acre (310,000 m 2) Kinney WPA in Van Buren County. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division ...
Holt County: MO 1935 7,415 acres (30.01 km 2) [247] Mingo National Wildlife Refuge: Stoddard County Wayne County: MO 1944 21,676 acres (87.72 km 2) [248] Ozark Cavefish National Wildlife Refuge: Lawrence County: MO 1991 40 acres (0.16 km 2) [249] Pilot Knob National Wildlife Refuge: Iron County: MO 1987 90 acres (0.36 km 2) [250] Swan Lake ...
The land which was originally wetlands used by migratory foul had earlier been used as a private hunting preserve. [3]In 1906 the Squaw Creek Drainage District No. 1 after much litigation using the contactors Rogers & Rogers completed ditches to drain nearly 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land into the Missouri River in a massive project in which more than 500,000 cubic yards of earth were moved ...
The University of Michigan, for example, has the 350 acres (140 ha) Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 350 acres (140 ha) Nichols Arboretum, 777 acres (314 ha) Stinchfield Woods, and the University of Michigan Biological Station with 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) at Douglas Lake and 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) on Sugar Island.
It is located in the central portion of the lower peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of the Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron and five miles (8 km) south of the city of Saginaw in the county's Spaulding and James townships. It was established in 1953 to provide habitat for migratory waterfowl.
The three parcels of bottomland that make up this Refuge had been riverine polders, agricultural land protected by dikes. After the dikes were breached by this flood, the damaged land parcels were transferred to the federal government. The Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to slowly return these three parcels to the status of semi ...