he Little Manistee drains 145,280 acres of water in Mason, Lake, and Manistee counties. The Little Manistee River starts in a few different swamps in Lake County. After Luther Dam it goes through most of Lake County, the barely hitting the northern part of Mason County, and then going through the southern part of Manistee County. After the Luther Dam, the Little Manistee River is flows straight for 55 miles into Manistee Lake in Stronach. Manistee Lake enters Lake Michigan through the channel in Manistee. Most of the Little Manistee has trees growing around it called conifers and northern hardwoods. A little less than half of the Little Manistee Upstream of M-37 is public property. But there is more public land below M-37. Overall, 53.2 percent of the Little Manistee is owned by the USFS (United States Forest Service) and the Pere Marquette State Forest. …show more content…
Because the Little Manistee river is so sandy it is mostly a ground feed watershed.
Little Manistee is the coldest and most stable river in Michigan. The two parts of the Little Manistee River that get the most ground water are between Spencer's Bridge and DeWitt's Bridge, also from 6 mile to 9 mile. …show more content…
In the lower two thirds of the Little Manistee there are almost no tributaries.
But the few tributaries that the river has are Little Widewaters Creek, Fairbanks Creek, Syers Creek, Twin Creek, and Lincoln Creek. While Twin Creek is one of the more important one due to its large amount of brown trout and steelhead. There are two dams in the Little Manistee one is the Luther dam located in Luther. This dam was built in 1880 to make a sawmill
pond. Later on it was changed so it could be used as a gristmill facility, it was changed one more time so it could be used as a power-generating facility. Though it does not give us any hydropowers anymore the dam is still there and continued to be maintained by the people of luther. In September of 1986 the dam broke and letting all the sediment in the small pond it had built up downstream casing major habitat destruction. Even though the MDNR said that they should not rebuild the dam because if it broke again it would be bad. But the Michigan legislature said that they could rebuild it anyway. But history repeat itself and the dam failed again in May of 1993. The MDNR was again opposing the rebuilding of the dam but again Michigan legislature let them rebuild it once more and it has stood till this day. But it was later found to be unconstitutional but by that time they had already rebuilt it so there was nothing they could do about it. The other dam in the Little Manistee is the Manistee weir which is operated every season by the MDNR Fisheries Division.
N. Scott Momaday wrote these lines in his 1991 book of poems, In the Presence of the Sun: “In the shine of photographs / are the slain, frozen and black / … In autumn there were songs, long / since muted in the blizzard.” In this poem called “Wounded Knee Creek”, Momaday depicts the aftermath of Federal and Native American conflict at the Battle of Wounded Knee. He reminds the reader of how the event and loss of native life are remembered solely through these photographs of the dead and lost. Momaday’s work represents the Western tradition of artists using their art to memorialize and remember the past peoples and places that have been transformed, built up, and destroyed through government institutions of the West. It is this remembrance of
Author and historian, Carol Sheriff, completed the award winning book The Artificial River, which chronicles the construction of the Erie Canal from 1817 to 1862, in 1996. In this book, Sheriff writes in a manner that makes the events, changes, and feelings surrounding the Erie Canal’s construction accessible to the general public. Terms she uses within the work are fully explained, and much of her content is first hand information gathered from ordinary people who lived near the Canal. This book covers a range of issues including reform, religious and workers’ rights, the environment, and the market revolution. Sheriff’s primary aim in this piece is to illustrate how the construction of the Erie Canal affected the peoples’ views on these issues.
When I started to reading this book, I do not imagine what it was about .I am an international student, and I have been living in the U.S for a short time , so many of the issues regarding of American history are new for me. The Erie Canal was part of the unknown subjects. It has been interesting to know, and learned that the Americans have had intension of shaping and preserve its history. And great historians, they would give out even the smallest details that helped make this nation what it is today.
Follow The River by James Alexander Thom is about Mary Ingles gruesome but yet courageous tale of her remarkable 1,000 mile journey home after she had escaped form the captivity of the Shawnee Indians. Through Mary Ingles hard work and determination she proved that all obstacles big and small can be overcome.
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The state offered to sell the canal, the railroad company bought it for the right of ways yet had no need to maintain the dam, which due to neglect, broke for the first time in 1862. McCullough stresses that man was responsible for the dam and its weaknesses nearly thirty years before the great flood as he explains how the initial repair work was carried out by unqualified people and how the discharge pipes were blocked up.... ... middle of paper ... ... McCullough makes a firm argument for the responsibility of man, and asserts the blame on the necessary people, therefore I feel he makes a fair and accurate assertion which I would agree with.
10,000 years ago, glaciers cut through the valleys in the north regions forming what would much later become The Great Lakes. As the largest freshwater system on earth, they are known for their vast area covering over 94,000 square miles, and have been the key asset to settlement in the surrounding regions. Serving as highways for migration, trade and travel the regions prospered from the abundance of natural resources. Lake superior is the worlds largest freshwater lake. It is also one of the most clear lakes in the world with an average visibility of 27ft with some regions as deep as 100ft.
The title on the cover page of the sheet music “Swingin’ on the Swanee Shore” refers to a particular dance associated with the south or along the “Swanee” River.
Moreover, environmental features in the Mitta Mitta river is playing a crucial role in terms of its water. Environmental features are those installations which alter the environment and includes environmental asset. The environmental features in every river catchment is contrast, for example Mitta Mitta river features is different with Macquarie river features. In addition, environmental assets in the Mitta Mitta river include provide habitats for high priority threatened native fish such as Macquarie perch, Murray cod, golden perch and flat-headed galaxias. Other high priority species found along the Mitta Mitta system include spotted tree frogs and the alpine spiny crayfish, in the upper Snowy Creek catchment. Another environmental assets are Wetlands, National Park, Gorges. Dams include Hume and Dartmouth dams, operating storages, 14 weirs, 13 locks, barrages at the Lower Lakes, and water management structures at
The information for the drainage loads, exports and concentration of P were obtained from North Temperate Lakes Long-term Ecological Research (NTL-LTER) program, US Geological Survey and Wisconsin DNR, creating with the information time series. For the loads to the La...
The Le Sueur River is located in southern Minnesota. This river is a big source of clean drinking water for the Mankato area. The river is 111 miles long, which watersheds into the Minnesota river. The river valley was formed by a glacier in Wisconsin. The erosion of this river started in about 2010. Erosion in the Le Sueur River valley started to happen when rain records reached their highs in 2010. Much of the erosion was caused by water, flooding over the banks causing the wear away of dirt. This is why the erosion of this river has caused
It has been said the Cape Fear River is the lifeblood of Southport. If this is correct, then Whittler’s Bench must be the heart. This riverfront setting at the foot of Howe Street has been a local gathering point for over two hundred years. Find a parking place (waterfront parking is in high demand so early morning parking is easiest) and visit Waterfront Park or take your fishing rod and visit the City Pier. Enjoy the cool breeze and river view. Watch the sail boats and power boats cruise the river. Oceangoing cargo ships and tankers make their way up and down the Cape Fear under the guidance of a local river pilot. Ferries shuttle people and cargo to Fort Fisher and Bald Head Island across the river. The cacophony of the gulls
Michigan touches four of the five Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior. The state's 3,288-mile (5,292-kilometer) shoreline is longer than that of any other state except Alaska. Michigan consists of two separate land areas, called the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula. The two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge, which spans 5 miles (8 kilometers) across the Straits of Mackinac.
The Klamath Hydroelectric Project is owned by a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and consists of six hydroelectric dams and one non-hydroelectric dam along the Link River, a feeder stream to Lake Ewauna, the Klamath River’s headwaters (PacifiCorp Power Company 2017). In the early 19th century, dams were constructed without an evaluation of environmental or social impacts. The dams are currently being considered for removal because they have been found to violate the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which provides protection for the Klamath River stock of coho salmon.(Gosnell and Kelly
On Saturday, April 25th, the class went on a field trip to different locations around the Blacksburg-Christiansburg area to view different land formations typical of the Virginia area. We visited a total of eight sites to include the Kentland Farms, VT airport, Blacksburg Golf Course, and several road side areas. The weather conditions that day were cloudy with intermittent showers making the ground very wet and reducing visibility across large landscapes for the majority of the day. This paper will serve a summary of each stop made and will tie all of the observations together into big picture concepts for the New River basin.