Beaver Island Michigan

I think between Chicago, Beaver Island and the Upper Peninsula, who has totally had it with the Michigan DNR and their antics we stand a pretty good chance of developing a navy on Lake Michigan and having ports in several locations

In case any of you want to go this might be a good idea to consider a side trip to Chicago this summer, please watch the video:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853&play=1

Thanks to the efforts of my son Jeffrey Powers and Jeff Cashman the www.powershardware.com webcam is back up and running. Seems as though the site had somehow been hacked and it caused an overload of resources. Now I need to go up on the roof and relocate the spider that vists the camera every now a...

Cormorants in the Beaver Island archipelago remove 90,000 pounds of fish per day from our waters. This has affected all of our fisheries. This summer large flocks of cormorants have been observed feeding in the near shore waters to Beaver Island almost every day. This is our opportunity to inform th...

Here is an interesting link to photos of a cormorant eating a full sized Pike

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

**Meeting changed to Thursday Night**

May 15, 2008

St James Township Firehall

Beaver Island Wildlife Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, 2008 St. James Township Hall Topics: Activities for MOWA Meeting Cormorant Control Efforts Cormorant Observation Visit Lake Geneserath Walleye Electrofishing Report Senator Allen Turkey Hunt Visit Turkey Plot & Habitat Planting Upda...

Several issues have recently surfaced in out efforts to maintain or increase the Cormorant Control efforts in the Beaver Island Archipelago. Currently in spite of our reccomendations for an increase in control over the 10% cull from last year, there is no increase planned for 2008 and USDA Wildlife ...

I was curious about the straits as well seeing that I am an expatriate here on the island!
This link says that the straits freeze over nearly every year-

http://www.boatnerd.com/facts-figures/huroncp.htm

I imagine the coast guard will find a way to cut us out in the spring!

Cellular One which has also been acquired by AT&T maintains a tower in town and one down Kings Highway. You may have coverage at your house but it may not be great. The signal strength good around the harbor area and slightly out of town.

Any spartan tailgater worth their salt surely would know Steve Juday, the great spartan quarterback from the infamouse 10-10 tie with Notre Dame in 1966, who has a place on the island and visits here often!

With the AT&T takeover of Cellular One we will no longer be able to provide cellular phone sales and bill payment at our store. We have tried to provide this conveinience to the island community but we will not be able to maintain the 20 cell phones sold per month minimum quota that will be a re...

Yes, they collect the unemployment taxes and they are a subsidiary of the "Michigan Department of Labor and ECONOMIC GROWTH, enough said.

Two recent examples of our state governments' lack of efficiency. 1. MESC Office simultaneously sent us two notices saying that they had not recieved last quarters payment and report and at the same time sent us the current quarters report that shows last quarters credited payment and a balance of z...

Nick, the popup blocker must be stopping the installation of the axis camera controller that should try to install automatically, call me at 2318810226 if you can't get it to work