River Segments

Manistee River Assessment

RIVER SEGMENTS

Seg 1 - Headwaters to M-72 Seg 2 - M-72 to Smithville (M-66) Seg 3 - Smithville (M-66) to M-115 Bridge Seg 4 - Hodenpyl Dam to Red Bridge (Coates Hwy) Seg 5 - Tippy Dam to M-55 Bridge Seg 6 - North Branch Manistee River Seg 7 - Bear Creek Seg 8 - Pine River

Seg 1 Deward

0 10 Seg 6 Grayling MILES

Fife Lake Sharon

Seg 3 Seg 2

Bear Lake Manton Mesick Seg 7 Kaleva

n Seg 5 a g Seg 4 i Manistee h Seg 8 ic Wellston Cadillac M e k a L

Bristol

Tustin

Figure 1.–The Manistee River watershed in northwestern lower Michigan.

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2 Deward

9 0 10 8 10 Grayling 15 11 5 MILES 16 4 17 7 Fife Lake 6 Sharon 12 29 20 13 22 45 31 23 18 Buckley 44 35 24 14 39 52 28 21 30 19 93 49 90 48 97 53 40 37 36 27 95 91 38 34 25 96 92 41 Mesick 32 26 94 50 46 42 33 99 98 100 47 Bear Lake 43 Manton 101 103 51 54 102 56 55 104 57 107 105 Harrietta 106 59 108 60 n 89 58 a 61 g Manistee i 62 h c 87 63 64 i 109 Wellston Cadillac M 65 66 e 88 k 67 85 69 a 86 71 68 L 84 70 83 72 80 82

81 79 75 73 76 74 77 78

Figure 2.–Major tributaries of the Manistee River.

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55. Small Creek 1. Deer Lake Outlet 56. Tar Creek 2. Frenchman’s Creek 57. Seaton Creek 3. Goose Creek 58. Slagle Creek 4. Portage Creek 59. Dead Creek 5. Black Creek 60. Cedar Creek 6. Clear Creek 61. Arguilla Creek 7. North Branch Manistee 62. Hinton Creek 8. Flowing Well Creek 63. Sands Creek 9. Morrison Creek 64. Johnson Creek 10. Collar Creek 65. Peterson Creek 11. Sands Creek 66. Snyders Creek 12. Devil Creek 67. Pine River 13. Little Devil Creek 68. North Branch Pine River 14. Cannon Creek 69. Spalding Creek 15. Pierson Creek 70. Sixteen Creek 16. Willow Creek 71. Fairchild (Negro) Creek 17. Maple Creek 72. East Branch Pine River 18. Little Cannon Creek 73. Rose Lake Outlet 19. Silver Creek 74. Edgett Creek 20. Waterhole Creek 75. Diamond Lake Outlet 21. Filer Creek 76. Sprague Creek 22. Nelson Creek 77. Beaver Creek 23. Spring Creek 78. Little Beaver Creek 24. Bourne Creek 79. Coe Creek 25. Ham Creek 80. Dyer Creek 26. Hopkins Creek 81. Sellars Creek 27. Voice Creek 82. Silver Creek 28. Bridson Creek 83. Elm Creek 29. Fife Lake Inlet 84. Poplar Creek 30. Fife Lake Outlet 85. Dowling Creek 31. Gould Creek 86. Hoxie Creek 32. Golden Creek 87. Sylvan Creek 33. Morrisy Creek 88. Pine Creek 34. Chase Creek 89. Bear Creek 35. Walton Outlet 90. First Creek 36. Manton (Cedar) Creek 91. Second or Hatches Creek 37. Buttermilk Creek 92. Third Creek 38. Silver Creek 93. Dutchman Creek 39. Sands Creek 94. Lemon Creek 40. Apple Creek 95. Healy Lake Outlet 41. Blind Creek 96. Little Bear Creek 42. Filer Creek 97. Green’s Creek 43. Soper Creek 98. Halls Creek 44. Anderson Creek 99. Arner Creek 45. West Branch Anderson Creek 100. Big Beaver Creek 46. Adams Creek 101. Williamson Creek 47. Cole Creek 102. Little Beaver Creek 48. East Branch Wheeler Creek 103. Cedar Creek 49. Wheeler Creek 104. Chicken Creek 50. Burkett Creek 105. Podunk Creek 51. Preston Creek 106. Boswell Creek 52. Cotton Creek 107. Chief Creek 53. Fletcher Creek 108. Sickle Creek 54. Cripple Creek 109. Claybank Creek

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Mancelona Road Bridge Blue Deward Pickeral Lake Cameron Bridge Manistee Lake Lake Goose Creek YellowTree's North Branch Landing Manistee 0 10 Grayling Mecum M-72 MILES Road Lake Margrethe CCC Fife Lake Portage Creek Sharon Bridge Rainbow Cannon Buckley Jim's Creek Baxter US-31 Bridge Bridge Copemish Smithville M-115 Bridge Bear Creek Bear Lake Hodenpyl Manton Dam Manton Mesick Sherman Kaleva Creek Harrietta Brethren n Coates Hwy a Tippy g i Manistee Dam (Red Bridge) h ic M-55 Bridge Wellston Cadillac M Manistee Lake e Pin Stronach Dam k e a Cre North L ek Poplar Pine Lake Creek Branch P in Pine River e R Lincoln iv e Bridge Rose Lake r Outlet Coe Creek Rose Lake

Figure 3.–General sites within watershed.

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Spawning habitat and associated behaviors

migrations

Refuge habitat daily migrations Food and growth winter habitat drought

Figure 4.–The basic life cycle of stream fish with respect to habitat use (adapted from Schlosser 1991).

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= Trout Deward

0 10 Grayling MILES

Fife Lake Sharon

Buckley

Mesick Bear Lake Manton

Harrietta

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Figure 5.–Designated trout streams in the Manistee River watershed. Data from Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division.

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MR-Manistee 5 MR-Sherman MR-Grayling 4 EBPR-Tustin PR-LeRoy 3

2 Standardized discharge

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Percent exceedence

Figure 6.–Flow duration curves for selected sites on the Manistee and Pine Rivers. Information from United States Geological Survey for period of record.

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Figure 7.–Ratio of high:low flow yields for selected Michigan rivers. Data from Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division.

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0 12 3 6 9 Noon 3 6 9 12 Time (hours)

Figure 8.–Typical daily peaking flow pattern at Tippy Dam.

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18 ( ° C)

14 Temperature

10 00:00 12:00 00:00 12:00 00:00 12:00 00:00 Time (units)

Figure 9.–Temperature patterns at Alcona peaking project on the Au Sable River, Michigan.

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River surface elevation (ft) Hodenpyl 700

600 Tippy

500 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 River mile mouth

headwaters

Figure 10.–Gradient (elevation change in ft/mi) of the Manistee River.

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1150

1050

950

Lincoln Bridge

850

River surface elevation (ft) M - 37 750

Stronach

650 e 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 River mile

Confluenc headwaters

Figure 11.–Gradient (elevation change in ft/mi) of the Pine River.

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In Idaho streams, undisturbed channels held 8 times greater biomass of trout on the average.

Over 80 years after channelization, biomass of fish remains 80 to 90 percent below original levels.

Figure 12.–Natural and altered channel-cross sections and trout biomass (from Gebhards 1973).

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Water Elevation

Channel Bottom

Figure 13a.–Degraded mainstem channel-cross section below Tippy Dam.

Islands Islands Water Elevation

Channel Bottom

Figure 13b.–Aggraded mainstem channel-cross section below Tippy Dam.

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Kalkaska - Rubicon Excessively drained Grayling - Rubicon Well drained Emmet - Kalkaska - East Lake

Emmet - Rousseau Moderately well drained

Bergland - Munuscong - Selkirk Rifle - Carbondole - Greenwood Very poorly Rousseau - Emmet - Rubicon and Nester - Iosco - Emmet poorly drained Ogemaw - Rubicon - Nester Newton - Finch - Rubicon

Figure 14.–Soil associations in the Manistee River watershed. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, Manistee River Wild and Scenic River Final Study Report and Environmental Impact Statement.

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A = Access site

C = Campground Deward A A A C C A A 0 10 C Grayling MILES A A C C Fife Lake A A Sharon A C Buckley A

A A C C C A Mesick A C Manton Bear Lake A

Harrietta

n A a g Manistee A A i AC h A ic A C Wellston Cadillac M A e k a C L C A C A A

C A A A C

Figure 15.–Public access site and campground locations in the Manistee River watershed. Data from Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation and United States

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Deward

0 10 Grayling MILES

Fife Lake Sharon

Buckley

Mesick Bear Lake Manton

Harrietta

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Figure 16.–Location of dams in the Manistee River watershed.

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