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      <image:caption>Samantha Nellis (l) awards the Community Conservation Leadership Award to Montiel Birmingham with the City of Alpena.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A view of the Au Sable River from an overlook on Hull Island that’s set to become Au Sable Scenic Preserve, a public recreation area and nature sanctuary just minutes from downtown Oscoda.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Oscoda Charter Township Engineer Rick Freeman, Huron Pines Executive Director Brad Jensen, Township Supervisor Nicole Tregear, Huron Pines Director of Community Engagement Abby Ertel and Township Manager Adam Kline (l-r) celebrate the transfer of the preserve at closing Oct. 28, 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Existing trails meander through the oak-dominant forest of AuSable River Scenic Preserve.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Four captive-reared piping plover chicks are released onto the dune shoreline of Tawas Point State Park July 7 by Huron Pines staff member Nick Theisen. Photo courtesy Konnie Spenceley</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Piping plovers "YoYo" and "Hero" (leg band codes X,O/B:Of,YY and Of,YR:X,O) do a parallel walk, staking out their territories on the dune shore of Tawas Point State Park. Photo courtesy Konnie Spenceley</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A female plover, dubbed “GiNGer” (leg band code Of,GN:X,G) strolls the sands of Tawas Point. Photo courtesy Jason Shaw Imaging</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A flotilla of kayakers explore the wild rice beds of Tawas Lake Aug. 8</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Erick Elgin (l), a limnologist with MSU Extension, hands off a sample of native aquatic vegetation to a participant of Tawas Lake Day.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Grains of wild rice develop from their stalk on Tawas Lake, Michigan’s largest expanse of this ecologically and culturally important plant.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MSU master’s student Olivia Coskie holds the flower of a water lily, one of more than 40 aquatic plant species observed by her research team on Tawas Lake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Wild rice is the dominant species at Tawas Lake but another 40 native aquatic species exist just below its calm surface.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>MSU Extension limnologist Erick Elgin holds a homemade tool—two garden rakes welded together and tied to a nylon rope—used to sample aquatic vegetation.</image:caption>
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