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A number of different local government bodies operate parks and protected areas. These include city parks which may be no more than a green space in a city to large regional park systems like the 24,000 acre (97 km 2) Huron-Clinton Metroparks. Michigan has county parks, township parks and at least one soil conservation district park among other ...
In some areas woodchucks are important game animals and are killed regularly for sport, food, or fur. In Kentucky, an estimated 267,500 M. monax were taken annually from 1964 to 1971. [59]: 143 Woodchucks had protected status in the state of Wisconsin [60] until 2017. [61] Woodchuck numbers appear to have decreased in Illinois. [62]
Map of wood-filled areas in the United States, c. 2000 [1] In the United States , the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service . [ 2 ]
This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Michigan. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas ...
Southern Lower Michigan is sometimes further divided into economic and cultural subregions. The more culturally and economically diverse Lower Peninsula dominates Michigan politics, and maps of it without the Upper Peninsula are sometimes mistakenly presented as "Michigan", which contributes to resentment by "Yoopers" (residents of "the U.P").
The headquarters are in Ironwood, Michigan, on the Wisconsin border, and the principal visitor center is located in Watersmeet, Michigan, in the southern section of the Forest. These and other towns within and adjacent to the Forest are served by U.S. Highway 2 , one of the principal highways of the Western Upper Peninsula.
CHICAGO — Hundreds of ducks infected with avian influenza — H5N1 bird flu — have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health officials.
The list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species that are located in Michigan as a part of the fauna of the United States. [1] Endangered and threatened species in Michigan are protected through the Endangered Species Act of the State of Michigan , part of the 1994 Michigan Natural ...