Beaver Island Michigan

Check out this three photo sequence of this poor Texas fisherman trying to stock a pond. I guess it is just another way of feeding the Birds!!!

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16661182.htm

:?: Recently in the Ann Arbor News, a CMU biologist indicated their opinion again that there is no evidence that cormorants damage fisheries, in the article titled "Cormorants making a small splash". The biologist also portrays the opinion that their is little evidence that these birds imp...

Please check out this link which is a cormorant control petititon started in Southern California where the birds are decimating stocked trout populations. http://www.fishingnetwork.net/cormorant.htm You will see in the signers that these birds are affecting fisheries across the entire United States....

This is a reprint of an article published in the June 15th, 2006 St. Ignace News. It makes it clear that biologists are determining that cormorants are definitly impacting the Yellow Perch and the reestablishment of their perch fishery seems to be related to the control that has taken place there. I...

All I know is what I saw and the casts of the prints that I made and the stride distance that the animal had in the mud and snow of early spring. I was as skeptical as anyone until I saw these prints. Couple this with the numerous sightings by many people on the island, the fact that people describe...

Here is a link to the story that Fred Gray did yesterday in the Petoskey News and Review. http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2006/06/16/news/local_regional/news02.txt In the same newspaper Fred reported on how the State Senate has written out the state representatives request for additional fundin...

Yesterday at the State House of Representative Appropriations hearing the Michigan DNR indicated that they have created this cormorant report form for citizens to report cormorant activity. Please use this link to report to the Michigan DNR the extent of the cormorant damage that is occurring daily ...

Yesterday the Michigan Senate unanimously passed Resolution Number 103 which calls for the Michigan DNR to incorporate aggressive control measures to reduce the population of Double-Crested Cormorants in Michigan. According to senate sources the concern expressed by the citizens of Michigan regardin...

Today the state legislature will vote on House Resolution 185 which will receive overwhelming support thanks to the efforts of citizens of the state of Michigan such as all of you that expressed support for this resolution. We have to look no further than yesterdays Herald Review from Grand Rapids, ...

I would urge everyone who is interested in the long term viability of our inland and great lakes fishery to contact your state representative today and encourage them to support House Resolution 185 which calls for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to work with the Federal Government to i...

I would encourage everyone concerned about the impact of Cormorants on the fisheries of the northern michigan area to read todays article in the Petoskey News and Review. http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2005/11/26/news/local_regional/news01.txt The Beaver Island Wildlife Club is very concerned ...