• Friendly Garden Club Garden Walk - Saturday, July 14, The N.E.W. Missaukee Foot Trail was one of the five gardens featured this year. The gardens and trail are open for the public to visit, exercise or sit on the newly installed benches and watch the wildlife. Stop and visit the ever changing flower beds and increasing birds and butterflies.

• Free Water Testing

• No Dumping Drains to Lake

• Annual Dinner -
  
  When: Monday, January 29, 2007 @ 6:00 PM
  Where: Timber Wolf Lake Camp
  Cost: $12.50 adults
             $10.00 10 & under
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Pat Rusz, Michigan Wildlife Conservancy's
                                  Director of Wildlife Programs
  Topic: Cougars/Myth or Reality
  Awards:

                      Groundwater Conservation Award - The Haskin Family
                                      Sponsored by GreenStone Farm Credit Services,
                                                                7597 S Mackinaw Trail
                                                                Cadillac, MI 49601
                                                                231.775.1361

  Friend of Conservation Award - Dean Sandell
                  Sponsored by Chemical Bank West
                                            1408 N Mitchell Street
                                            Cadillac, MI 49601
                                            231.775.8588

               Volunteer Recognition -
            Earth Team Volunteer, Beverly Lind, celebrated fifteen years with the District
            Volunteers - Paula Miceli, Michele Bernier, Marcia Wieringa, Dale Bogard,
              Lois Matteson, Linda Black, Jessica Davidson, Mary Beth Montague, John
              Kendziorski, and Sheila Gaeschke
                                  Sponsored by Citizens Bank of Falmouth
                                                        500 E Prosper Road
                                                        Falmouth, MI 49632
                                                        231.826.3306
  
  For more information regarding cougars in Michigan, click on the following links:
  Michigan Department of Natural Resources-
          http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_43573---,00.html
  The Michigan Wildlife Conservancy-
          http://www.miwildlife.org/

• Enhancing Your Landscaping Knowledge Workshop
      When: Saturday, June 3, 2006
              Immediately following the Friendly Garden Club Plant Sale
      Where:  Old fire barn behind Subway, Lake City
      Topics Covered:

  • Landscaping in Urban Settings
        Linda Black, Master Gardener

  • Benefits of Native Plants in Your Backyard
        Alix Cleveland, USDA Forest Service

  Enhancing your Landscaping Knowledge Workshops targets (but is not limited to) property owners with less than five acres made possible by a grant from the Department of Natural Resources, Forest, Mineral and Fire Management, Urban and Community Forestry Program with funding from the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry.

• Pests on Ornamentals Plus Tree and Shrub Identification
     When: Thursday, June 29, 2006
      Where: Maple Grove Park
      Topics Covered:

  • Pests on Ornamentals and How to Control
    Dr. Duke Elsner, Agricultural Agent, MSU Extension

  • Tree & Shrub Identification
    Larry Thompson, Retired Horticulturalist, University of Illinois
    and current Missaukee Conservation District Board Member

    Pests on Ornamentals plus Tree and Shrub Identification targets (but is not limited to)  property owners with less than five acres made possible by a grant from the Department of Natural Resources, Forest, Mineral and Fire Management, Urban and Community Forestry Program with funding from the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry.

• 2005 Log Cabin Raffle - A new 28X40' log cabin raffle was unveiled at the Annual Dinner, October 11, 2004. Missaukee Conservation District raffled a log cabin on 3.5 acres located at 7380 S. Forward Road, McBain, MI (1/4 - 1/2 mile south of Falmouth). 3500 tickets were available for $50 each.  The winning ticket was drawn October 17, 2005. Missaukee Conservation Club Raffle License #78737.

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• Annual Dinner  Monday, October 17, 2005
  Timber Wolf Lake Camp, M-66, Lake City
   

  • Program "What's Meth got to do with Conservation?"
    Program by Mitch Stevens, MI State Trooper
     

  • Awards were given, fantastic dinner, directors elected, terrific program, door prizes given, Dairy Tour posters voted on, and the winning log cabin raffle was drawn by Sheriff Bosscher.

$12.50 adults, $10 children 10 & under,
registration and payment due by October 13th

tickets available at the door
$15 adults, and $12.50 children

• Native Plant Workshop   -  October 8, 2005 Benefits of landscaping with native plants and a native plant sale are highlights of this workshop. Maple Grove Building, Davis Street, Lake City.

  Lavender Hyssop	Big Blue Stem
  Wild Columbine	Swamp Milkweed
  Butterfly Weed	Sky Blue Aster
  Smooth Blue Aster	Wild Senna
  Buttonbush	Lanceleaf Coreopsis
  Purple Coneflower	Boneset
  Bottlebrush Grass	Blue Flag Iris
  Junegrass	Cardinal Flower
  Great Blue Lobelia	Lupine
  Wild Bergamot, Beebalm	Switch Grass
  Purple Prairie Coneflower	Mountain Mint
  Swamp Rose	Culver's Root
  Giant Ironweed

• 2004 Annual Dinner

What an evening we had planned at Timber Wolf Lake Camp on Monday, October 11. Michael Glenn Monroe, Artist and Illustrator of children's books arrived at 5:00 for a book signing.  Dinner started at 6:00 with Birds of Prey as the evenings entertainment. It was inspiring to hear the Bald Eagle cry.   Guest speaker, Jesse Gabbard of Michigan United Conservation Club, presented "Birds of Prey" featuring live birds. This presentation was sponsored by a grant from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Traverse Area Arts Council.

Dinner guests cast their votes to determine the winning Dairy Tour Poster. Missaukee and Wexford fifth grade students were invited to attend Many Blessings Dairy Tour. Each class is then asked to create a poster about their experiences during the tour. The winning class received a cow party. McKinley Elementary, Mrs. Hunt's class is the winner of a cow party with ice cream floats.

• Native Plant Sale -  was held at Maple Grove Park across from Lake City Middle School, in 2004, during Festival of the Pines. Vern Stephens from "Designs by Nature" gave a presentation at 11:00 and was there to answer your landscaping questions. Woodland, rescued and native plants were for sale. An afternoon of invigorating plant talk is always exciting.

• Crooked Lake Project -

  McBain Rural Agricultural School and Missaukee Conservation District met on 5-24-2004 at Crooked Lake Campground to spread wood chips on pathways for hikers and bikers to enjoy this camping season.

   

2003 National Association of Conservation District Annual Poster Contest Winners for Missaukee County.  Congratulations to .....

  Thank you for helping our students appreciate Dairy Farmers!