This is the type of reading I enjoy wishing I could do more projects like this in Michigan.

Critical Chief River habitat preserved
Land purchase prevents development on wild stream

A key tributary for Chippewa Flowage walleye, musky and smallmouth bass spawning and 4,000 feet of wild shoreline have been protected for the public and future generations thanks to a land purchase completed last year.

When approached by Buchman, Senior Fisheries Biologist Frank Pratt said, “We most definitely would be interested” in buying the land from Warder. “The North Fork of the Chief River has tremendous value for fisheries as a spawning and nursery area for various fish species, especially muskellunge, walleye and smallmouth bass, and it has high intrinsic value for aesthetics and protection of the watershed and ecosystem just from the fact it’s undeveloped wild shoreline,” he said.

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