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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 refuge also administers the Shiawassee Management District which coordinates wetland restorations in 22 counties and oversees conservation easements in 44 counties of lower Michigan. The refuge is authorized to expand its present boundaries by 7,500 acres (30 km 2 ) along the Tittabawassee, Shiawassee, and Cass rivers from willing sellers.
The William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor (formerly named Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor) is a public recreation area located on the Detroit River just east of downtown Detroit, Michigan, on a portion of the city's International Riverfront. The state park's 31 acres (13 ha) include wetlands, paved trails, and a 52-slip harbor of ...
The drainage was a failure and left the wetland criss-crossed with canals, ditches, and drainage ponds. Much of the property was then abandoned for unpaid property taxes. During the 1930s, work crews employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) rebuilt, restored, and expanded the wetland drains, this time for active wetlands management ...
Lake Andes Wetland Management District: Southeast South Dakota 1961 82,731 acres (334.80 km 2) [474] Madison Wetland Management District: East Central South Dakota 1969 129,700 acres (525 km 2) [475] Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Brown County: 1935 21,498 acres (87.00 km 2) [476] Sand Lake Wetland Management District: North Central South ...
The Tobico Marsh, one of the largest remaining freshwater, coastal wetlands on the Great Lakes is located in the park. The park is a haven for migratory birds and wetland wildlife. [1] Other natural features of the park include a mile of sandy beach, over 2,000 acres (810 ha) of wetland woods, meadows, oak savannah prairies, and cattail marshes.
Minnehaha Creek has long been treated like a glorified drainage ditch as it flows downstream from Lake Minnetonka through south Minneapolis, dumping street runoff into the Mississippi River. A new ...
The Houghton Lake Flats Flooding State Wildlife Management Area is a protected wildlife area located in rural Lake Township within Roscommon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The wildlife management area incorporates 1,830 acres (7.41 km 2) of artificially restored marsh and wetlands just west of Houghton Lake.