The Camera Point Project involves taking photographs from the exact same position across eighty years to view differences that may have occurred. The project is a valuable resource to track changes in various wildlife habitats. Some maps documenting resurveys are also included. The maps show bodies of water and land formations throughout the state. Enforcement of hunting and fishing laws moved from the local and county level to the state level with the establishment of the state Game and Fish Warden.
The Department of Conservation was created by the legislature to consolidate the individual commissions and officials into one department. The first Civilian Conservation Corps camps were established in Michigan. After the state constitution was ratified, several additional commissions were moved to the Department of Conservation, including the Water Resources Commission, the Mackinac Island State Park Commission and the Waterways Commission.
They remained there until the Department of Environmental Quality was established in In addition to content on Michiganology, you can find more original records from the Departments of Natural Resources and Conservation at the Archives of Michigan. The first oilfield pit rules were added in The Office of Conservation OC, within DNR retained much of its autonomous jurisdiction over the oil and gas industry, such as the drilling and production of oil and gas wells and disposal of the associated exploration and production waste.
Contact the LLA Hotline. Additionally, gas was not readily available for civilian vacations. Michiganders have always loved their parks. Initially, the state was dependent on gifts of lands by donors. However, by the s, if expansion was to continue, there was a realization that the state would need a long-term funding source to purchase more land.
Financing these lands was not always easy. The state park centennial celebration is centered around the formation of the Michigan State Park Commission by the state Legislature on May 12, As the DNR celebrates the th anniversary of Michigan state parks system, a natural question arises - what was Michigan's first state park? In , directors of the Dodge Brothers Co.
Eleven parks, totaling more than acres in all, were presented to the state in memory of late brothers and industrialists John F. Dodge, who founded the Dodge automobile company. Learn about historical events taking place in state parks, including Babe Ruth's arrest for violating Michigan's game and fish laws at Island Lake Recreation Area and Arthur Compton, a world-famous physicist, worked on some calculations for the atomic bomb at Otsego State Park.
With the transfer of Fort Michilimackinac built by the French on the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac in approximately and parts of Mackinac Island from the federal government to the state of Michigan in , Michigan became one of the first states in the nation to establish a state park. First deer reduction is held at a state park Brown County , launching division's policies of resource management and restoration , which later expanded to include prescribed fire, invasive-species management and more.
Division of Forestry establishes Urban Forestry program. Contributions are tax deductible as allowable by law. Division of Law Enforcement launches trapper education program. Federal Office of Surface Mining makes the Division of Reclamation the primary regulatory authority over coal mining. Indiana Nongame Wildlife Fund is created.
The Knobstone Trail opens with a length of 32 miles. Managed by the Division of Forestry, the longest trail in Indiana now covers 60 miles.
Division of Law Enforcement launches snowmobile education program. Indiana becomes first state in nation to offer tax break for creation of wildlife habitat after passage of Classified Wildlife Habitat Act.
Bounties on fox and coyote are repealed.
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