When: Saturday, July 26, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Where: 228 N Main Street | Cheboygan, MI

GREAT DOOR PRIZES! Including boat rental from Howe Marine, $100 (2) gift certificates for native plants from Harvest Thyme, $100 (2) for The Breakers, $100 (2) gift certificates for septic service, and MORE!

Current (paid) members are eligible for door prizes and invited to join the business meeting at 9:30 AM. Join and donate at the door by check or cash, PayPal, or at the PayPal link below.

Suggested donation of $45 for membership. (Any donation is appreciated. 🙂 )

This September 16, 2024, from 9am to 10am — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is hosting a Zoom webinar to help MI residents learn vital information about septic system use, routine care–to help protect public health, preserve our highly-valued groundwater, lakes, streams, and waterways. Learning about septic systems can help you avoid costly repairs.

For more information and to register for the webinar, you can click here.

The MAPS 2024 annual meeting was concluded Tuesday, August 20th, at 6PM at the Cheboygan Public Library.

This year’s speakers included:

• Sgt Earl Manuel – on Mullett Lake Sheriff Patrols
• Kevin Taylor, DNR Head Cheboygan – on Inland Waterway Lake Levels
• Tersa Salveta, EGLE Shoreline Stewards Program

And the evening was ended with cookies! Stay tuned for next year’s meeting.

The Michigan DNR, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Bay Mills Indian Community, and Michigan State University will be conducting a lake sturgeon survey on Mullett Lake from July 8-25. The goal of this survey is to assess the lake sturgeon population and the success of stocking efforts.

• Gill nets will be set Monday-Thursday each week
• Nets will be checked every 1-2 hours during the day
• Nets will not be set overnight
• Lake sturgeon will be measured, tagged and released
• Nets will be marked with staff buoys (see image below)

Please be on the lookout for buoys and avoid them while boating!

On August 30th 2023, MAPS held its annual meeting at the Cheboygan Public Library. You can watch the meeting here.

On the southwest shore of Mullett Lake is a 147-acre property, now known as Gete Mino Mshkiigan. The name roughly translates to Ancient Good Wetlands.

On September 8th 2022, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) held an open house event (click here for more info) to get input from the community on their plan to develop the property.

Click here to read a draft of DNR’s plan.

Click here to read the Mullet Lake Area Preservation Society’s comments on the DNR’s plan.

Darrell Schwalm writes:

Our newest shoreline bank greenbelt project continues to make progress. The field stone rock construction on top of the pervious ground cloth and gravel on the shoreline bank is completed. These rocks were hand-placed to form a level, 23 degree sloped to prevent ice flows from grabbing a rock and pushing or pulling it out of the bank. The rocks are in the 9”-13” diameter size with larger rocks at the water’s edge to provide a base or “toe.

The next step will be to use additional rocks to create an outline for the landscaped greenbelt plant beds. Another row of larger rock will be placed along the top of the rock embankment and on the grass to form the beds. New soil to create the beds will be filled in over the grass. These rock-lined beds will complement existing beds in front of the house and along one side of the shoreline property.

Darrell Schwalm writes:

Sunday, August 24 was a busy day for the sturgeon restoration efforts within the Mullett Lake watershed. One event attended by MAPS representatives was the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians (LTBB) pot luck lunch, ceremony, and sturgeon fingerling release into the Sturgeon River at Wolverine. Since 2013, LTBB has released almost 3,000 fingerling sturgeon into the Burt Lake watershed — mostly in the Sturgeon River at or upstream of Wolverine. The purpose is to introduce sturgeon that are imprinted to the waters of the Sturgeon River. This will help reestablish migration runs of sturgeon throughout the Cheboygan River watershed. The fingerlings were raised in the LTBB hatchery in Pelston.

Your MAPS dues/donations helping Sturgeon for Tomorrow put juvenile Sturgeon into your lake.

Sturgeon for Tomorrow- Grow Sturgeon, Protect Sturgeon, Educate children about Sturgeon. Simple, positive, making a difference.

Sturgeon for today, Sturgeon for Tomorrow…..