Accomplishments

Since 1988, with your help and grant money from the Michigan DNR we have generated
in excess of $450,000 for fish and wildlife projects in Iron County.

Initiated Iron County turkey relocation trap and transfer

Provide feed, feeders and labor to feed Iron County turkeys

Provide the MDNR Wildlife Division the annual Iron County turkey inventory

Purchased no-till seeders, trailers and sprayers for planting wildlife food plots, QDMA

Held Food Plot Planting Demonstration Field Day for area landowners, QDMA

Held disadvantaged youth hunt on WUIC food plots, QDMA

Developed Iron Co. Hunters Feeding a Hungry Neighbor Project, QDMA

Trout habitat restoration on over 120 miles of streams

Trout habitat improvements: skybooms, sand traps, brush bundle reefs

Barrier free fishing pier at Fortune Pit Trout Pond

School nest box program

Increased walleye fingerling production

Hunter Safety programs

Wildlife rehabilitation (Louis Bonno`s Animal Hospital)

Crib Reefs on Swan, Ice, Indian, Stanley, Haggerman, Fortune Lakes

Donated funds assisting in bald eagle banding

Forage fish restoration on several lakes

Assisted 4H loon nesting platforms and wood duck boxes

Assisted West Iron County School youth fishing program

Assisted Forest Park environmental and mammal tracking program

Provided wildlife related audio visual aids to local museum

Wolf monitoring and live trapping

Hunter walking trails

Sponsored Osprey nesting platforms

Grouse and Woodcock habitat improvement

Purchased Buck Wilder Books for Forest Park Elementary School

Outdoor Walking Trail Project at Covenant Point Camp

Funded Environmental Field Trip for Forest Park Elementary School

Funded Mammal Tracking Program, Forest Park School

Funded Turkey Hunting Seminar

Funded Liming of Forest Lake

Funded Forest Park 2nd Grade Goes Wild Outdoor Program

Purchased Hunter Safety Equipment Trailer

Funded Girl Scout Outdoor Fun Day

Funded Forest Park Agents Of The Earth Outdoor Education

Funded Forage Fish for Walleye Rearing Pond

Assisted Becoming An Outdoor Woman

Camp Gibbs Handicap Access Toilet

Purchased GPS for Local Hunters Safety Class

Provided Funding For a North Chicaugon Lake Access Site

Provided Funding For Additional Firearms For Hunters Safety

Provided Funding For Additional Firearms For Camp Gibbs Youth Skeet Program

Purchased Pickup Truck for Camp Batawagama Youth Camp

Funded Iron County 4H Sharp Shooters Range & Program

Purchased Van for Camp Batawagama

Funded Hiawatha Gun Club Youth Trap Shooting Program

Purchased Indoor Outdoor Target for the Ojibwa Archers

Funded Improvements To The Alpha Gun And Pistol Range