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Nature Conservancy-backed amendments aim to create local recreation and natural-resources authorities in U.P.
Summary
The House Committee on Natural Resources and Tourism heard testimony on House Bills 4694 and 4695, technical amendments to allow creation of a regional recreation and natural-resources authority to manage parcels such as the Keweenaw Peninsula acquisition.
The House Committee on Natural Resources and Tourism heard testimony on House Bills 4694 and 4695, a pair of technical amendments to the Michigan Recreational Authorities Act intended to enable creation of a local recreation and natural-resources authority.
Rich Bowman, director of external affairs for The Nature Conservancy, told the committee the amendments respond to a recent private sale of roughly 32,400 acres at the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Bowman said the sale posed an ‘‘existential threat’’ to local trail networks because large parcels of private forest…
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