Au Sable River Riparian Use & Ownership Guide
You Are Encouraged To...
- Minimize the negative impact of existing lawns by:
- Not using fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides
- Allowing a strip of a least twenty-five feet wide along the riverbank to remain unmowed
- Plant native trees and shrubs along the river and on your riparian property
- Periodically inspect septic systems to assure that no effluent is entering the river.
- Avoid the use of electric bug-zappers. They kill mostly the mayflies and caddis flies that are the natural food for trout and birds while killing only a few mosquitoes and black flies.
- Consider future development on your property in terms of whether it is really necessary and if so, how can it be done while minimizing negative impact on the watershed.
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