Forgotten Treasures #23: THE MICHIGAN GRAYLING

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"J & D Moe" wrote in message
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Thanks for the read Wolgang. I thouroughly enjoyed this read.

You're welcome.

I often wonder what it must have been like to fish Michigans rivers
before the logging and dams took hold of them. Although the lower
Muskegon (below Croton) is a stocked tailwater, I still enjoy floating
and fishing it while wondering what it was like 150 years ago. A day
spent on it's waters is filled with evidence of the logging industry's
affects. Efforts to revitalize the sturgeon population are slowly taking
hold. Dam removal projects above the Croton and Hardy impoundments are
finally being realized. Time will tell what effect they will have on the
fisheries up there.

Dam removals are very encouraging. Of course, the results are not to
everyone's liking.....even specialist anglers do not always
benefit.....but assuming that ecosytems as they developed in the absence
of modern land use practices are worth saving for their own sake,
regardless of any immediate utility, one can only applaud the effort.
Unfortunately, envisioning what those streams must have looked like before
the rape of the bordering forests will forever be an exercise of
imagination. No human effort, regardless of technology, science and
economic input, can ever restore what evolved naturally over the course of
ten millennia or so.

The ONE thing aove all else that I enjoy about being stuck back here in
Michigan is the seemingly endless choice of rivers and streams. Thanks
again.

I've sampled a good few of the streams in the U.P. (as have several others
here), but have only touched a couple of those in the far western L.P. We
have a few veterans of the Michigan holy waters here, and a number of
others (myself included) who would like to be introduced. Seems to me
like it's just about time for an official ROFF "Troll" clave.

Wolfgang


For those interested in Michigan rivers and streams:

http://www.mrwa.org/project-hersey.htm

http://www.fws.gov/arsnew/regmap.cfm?arskey=20878

http://www.paulyoungtu.org/Annual%20...ecipients.html

I was going to post the first two links in my last post...but forgot. Sleep
deprivation is a pain in the ass and hard on my memory.

Jeremy Moe