Exploring the Journey of Little Manistee River

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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…

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…

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

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