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MI 8. Tobico Marsh. Acreage: About 1000. 



Location: Bay County; Kawkawlin Quadrangle; 1 mile N of Bay City State Park. 



Description: A 326-acre lagoon, stabilized by a dike at the outlet, is surrounded 

 by about 290 acres of dense marsh, some of it floating, in which bulrushes, cat- 

 tail, pickerel weed, water willow, and Phragmites are dominants. Shrub thickets 

 and swamp forest, in which white elm, black ash, red maple, silver maple, 

 swamp white oak, and basswood are common, border the marsh. A rich aquatic 

 fauna and large flocks of migratory waterfowl are present. Maintained as a 

 Sanctuary by the Game Division of the Department of Conservation. 



Ownership: Chiefly by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources; small 

 sections private. 



Data source: Michigan Natural Areas Council, Tobico Marsh Site Committee 

 Report. 



Other knowledgeable persons: Mr. Joseph Swan, 512 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 



48404. 



