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Michigan Wetland Management District 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 National Wetlands Inventory ... NWI started mapping wetlands at a small scale (1:250,000 map which covers an area the size of 128-1:24,000 USGS topographic maps ...
The wetland status of 7,000 plants is determined upon information contained in a list compiled in the National Wetland Inventory undertaken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and developed in cooperation with a federal inter-agency review panel (Reed, 1988). The National List was compiled in 1988 with subsequent revisions in 1996 and 1998.
The Michigan DNR hopes that these wetlands will be an attractive location for migratory birds. Ninety-seven percent of the former Detroit River wetlands have been lost to development ; the de-development of Detroit in the 2000s created an opportunity for wetlands restoration.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Michigan. Major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Maple River State Game Area Maple River Flooding near U.S. Route 127 Location within the state of Michigan Show map of Michigan Location within the United States Show map of the United States Location Clinton, Gratiot, and Ionia counties Michigan, United States Nearest city St. Johns, Michigan Coordinates 43°07′10″N 84°39′56″W / 43.11944°N 84.66556°W / 43.11944; -84. ...
The protected areas of Michigan come in an array of different types and levels of protection. Michigan has five units of the National Park Service system. There are 14 federal wilderness areas; the majority of these are also tribal-designated wildernesses. It has one of the largest state forest systems as well having four national forests.
Map including the Huron Islands showing Huron National Wildlife Refuge and the lighthouse (AMS, 1957)The Huron Islands are a group of eight small, rocky islands in Lake Superior, located about three miles (4.8 km) off the mouth of the Huron River in northwestern Marquette County, Michigan, United States.