Newsflash

Our next chapter meeting will be Thursday, April 18th at Lockhart’s BBQ in Royal Oak (202 E. 3rd St). We will be meeting in the downstairs meeting room (elevator is available) where food and drink is offered.  The meeting starts at 7:00pm (come early to order dinner) and the speaker is Kimberly Balke of Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA). She will be speaking on the Boardman River dam removal project – the largest dam removal project in Michigan history.

Come join us for some great fishing information and good food and drink. Of course, any interested parties and all TU chapters are welcome!

Conservation Projects

Before 2011, Davis Rest, an access site on the Au Sable below Mio and Cummins Flats, was an erosion site with a pit toilet -- a well-built pit toilet. The Challenge Chapter submitted proposals to the U. S. Forest Service for steps, and started work in 2012. There's a picture below of the site before the project, and there are 14 pictures of how it looked in August, 2013. The project required two summers of work because a bank upstream from the steps started to collapse the year fter the staris were built. We went back again with the Forest Service's help and added some coconut fiber "logs" and some trees to protect the bank from being undermined by high water.

 

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