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The Shelldrake River's headwaters are an undefined area in the Betsy Lake Wetland, an Eastern Hemlock and tamarack forest in the roadless area of northern Tahquamenon Falls State Park. This wetland, in Chippewa County and adjacent Luce County, is dominated by Lake Superior-fed rain and snow. For mapping purposes, the Shelldrake River is ...
Calhoun County: Lake Twenty 124 acres (50 ha) Gladwin County: Twin Lakes: 198 acres (80 ha) Cheboygan County: Twin Lakes 5 acres (2.0 ha) Shiawassee County: Union Lake 544 acres (220 ha) Branch County: Upper Silver Lake 127 acres (51 ha) Oceana County: Van Auken Lake 249 acres (101 ha) 47 feet (14 m) Van Buren County: Van Etten Lake: 1,409 ...
"Planning for Wildness: Aldo Leopold's Report on Huron Mountain Club". Journal of Forestry. 104 (1). Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters: 32– 42. ISSN 0022-1201. Leopold, Aldo (1938). Report on Huron Mountain Club (Report). Huron Mountain Club. Manville, Richard H. (May 1948). "The Vertebrate Fauna of the Huron Mountains, Michigan".
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula. Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands ...
Unlike many of Michigan's rivers, the Thunder Bay River drops considerably from its headwaters in southwestern Montmorency County to Lake Huron. A hill near the headwaters northeast of Lewiston is 1,270 feet (390 m) above sea level and 689 feet (210 m) above lake level. A former whitewater stretch northwest of Alpena, the "Long Rapids", carried ...
The other surviving portion of the sill is now Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Parts of the limestone sill between the Door and Garden peninsulas have been eroded away by glaciers. An archipelago of islands south of the Garden Peninsula spans the gap between the two peninsulas, and hems in Green Bay, Lake Michigan's largest bay, to the west. The ...
The Huron River is a 7.6-mile-long (12.2 km) river [1] in the northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Locally, it is commonly called the Big Huron River to distinguish it from the nearby Little Huron River. Another much larger Huron River is in Southeast Michigan.
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).