The Traverse City Record Eagle reports that the MI DNR and the Grand Traverse Conservancy are working on a plan to purchase a public access easement on 1,700 acres of land along a branch of the Manistee River near Kalkaska.  Excerpts and link:http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_213095248.html

KALKASKA — More than 1,700 acres of woods and water in Kalkaska County could soon be off limits from future development and open for public hunting, fishing and other recreation.

The Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy is working with the state to buy the old Flowing Well fish hatchery and surrounding property, about eight miles east of Kalkaska.

State natural resources officials are considering the purchase of an approximate $3.4 million conservation and public access easement at the site, much of it bordered by state and federal land.

It will be the second largest conservation project in the local conservancy’s history, said Matt McDonough who’s their senior land protection specialist.

“There aren’t too many 1,700-acre tracts of property out there to protect anymore,” he said. The land is owned by a group of downstate residents who use it as a hunting and fishing retreat.

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