US-MI-Au+Sable+River


 * =Birding in Michigan=

Oscoda County
=Au Sable River= Mio, MI 48647 [|U.S. Forest Service: Au Sable River web site] [|Au Sable River map] [|U.S. Forest Service: Au Sable River brochure & map]

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Au Sable River--Mio Dam
Coordinates: 44.6609001, -84.1320348 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

AuSable River--Camp Ten Rd. bridge
Coordinates: 44.6685796, -84.1795635 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

AuSable River--Mio to Comins Flats
Coordinates: 44.6574202, -84.0897846 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Au Sable River
The Au Sable National Scenic River, is a 23-mile portion of the Au Sable River that stretches from Mio to Alcona Pond. President Ronald Reagan signed the law establishing the segment of river as a National Scenic River on October 4, 1984. By receving this designation, this free-flowing segment from below Mio Pond to the upper end of Alcona Pond received national recognition for its outstanding and remarkable scenic, recreational, biological and historical values and a national commitment to its protection. People have enjoyed the scenic beauty of the Au Sable for hundreds of years.

In pre-European settlement times, Native Americans used the river as a travel route. After European settlement of the area, the Au Sable River was a major throughway for floating white pine to sawmills or waiting barges at ports on Lake Huron. During those years many of the logs and fallen trees that littered the river were carried downstream with the harvested white pine. In recent years efforts have been made to replace logs in the river to help reduce erosion and maintain the world-class trout fishing river as an aquatic habitat. From [|U.S. Forest Service: Au Sable River web site]

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