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Symposium educates 200+ on engineering and technical concepts

10/25/2022

 
On October 20, 2022, over 200 attendees, 16 vendors and 11 presenters filed into the Midland Center for the Arts for an all-day event about the path to Four Lakes restoration. What follows is a summary of the symposium.

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Third Quarterly Report Shares Financial Summmary and Permit Statuses

10/18/2022

 
Click to read FLTF's Q3 report: 
  1. Financial Summary
  2. Bottomland Improvement and Path Forward for Vegetation Management
  3. Permit Status
  4. Dam by Dam Updates

Evaluation Plots at Wixom, Sanford Lakes Treated to Control Woody Growth in Lakebeds

9/21/2022

 
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Edenville Township and the Wixom Lake Improvement Board recently completed a pilot program to aerially spray evaluation plots on Sanford and Wixom lakes for the purpose of controlling growth of woody trees in the lakebeds.


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Wixom and Sanford Lakebottom Flood Debris Removal Begins

5/24/2022

 
Please be advised that flood debris removal on the Wixom and Sanford lakebottom lands has begun and will continue through the summer. You will see equipment and crews on the bottomlands of both lakes removing uprooted trees, loose stumps, dock parts, boat lifts, hazardous substances like gas cans, watercraft, and other man-made objects within the 100-year floodplain. Trees and stumps attached to the lake bottom will be left in place. Some mowing of vegetation on the lake bottom will be done as part of this project, but only enough to allow crews to find and remove debris.

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Mussel Surveys Taking Place in June on Wixom and Sanford

5/12/2022

 
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Central Michigan University (CMU) Biology Department and CMU Institute for Great Lakes Research will have multiple researchers out in the Wixom and Sanford lake areas as well as some surrounding tributaries and dams performing surveys for native freshwater mussels (i.e., clams). They will be working from the banks, canoes or boats and may use SCUBA to access sites. CMU will be out determining site access prior to June and surveys will begin the week of June 1st, 2022. CMU completed similar surveys in the Secord and Smallwood lake areas during the summer of 2021.

Fishing Locations Re-Open for Walleye Season

4/29/2022

 
Walleye fishing season begins Saturday, April 30th. There will be three available fishing locations at the Four Lakes dams beginning this weekend: Secord Dam, Smallwood Dam and the Tobacco side of Edenville Dam.
  • Secord Dam - both sides of the water channel below the dam
  • Smallwood Dam - southeast side of water channel below the dam (McKimmey Rd. entrance)
  • Tobacco Spillway - east side of the water channel below the dam
Lakebottom Access & Use Rules

Coyotes on the Lakebottoms

1/21/2022

 
On January 20, the Midland Daily News (MDN) had a front-page article about increasing sightings of coyotes in and around Sanford Lake. A local resident also advised FLTF of abundant coyotes hunting and living among the recently sprouted trees on the Wixom Lake bottomland. The MDN article included comments from individuals proposing hunting as a way to deal with the coyotes.

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