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Posts Tagged ‘hartwick pines state park’
Thu, 12 April 2012
| Sat, 21 April 2012 | ||
| 11:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
AT HARTWICK PINES STATE PARK
April 21, 2012
ACTIVITY SCHEDULE
11 a.m. Birding Hike along the Old Growth Trail
Location: Meet at the Back Deck of the Visitor Center
Program Duration: Approx. 1 hour; 1mile walk
Walk with an experienced birder along the Old Growth Trail and learn how to be a successful birder. A wide variety of birds can be found (and heard) along the Old Growth Trail. How many can you find?
1 p.m. SPECIAL MOVIE PRESENTATION
GREEN FIRE: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time
Location: Visitor Center Auditorium
Program Duration: Approx. 73 minutes
This recently released movie invites the audience into Aldo Leopold’s writing and thoughts on conservation, a perfect way to celebrate Earth Day! Carrie Scott (USFS) will introduce the movie and engage the audience in conversation about the movie.
2 p.m. Birding along the AuSable Trail
Location: Meet at the Visitor Center’s Front Desk
Program Duration: Approx. 2 hours; 3 ½ mile hike
This guided hike along the AuSable Trail invites you to take in the beauty of spring migration. You’ll hear (and hopefully see) a variety of warblers, sparrows and thrushes. Be sure to wear comfortable shoes for the trail is not paved.
ALL DAY ACTIVITIES
AuSable-Manistee Fiber Guild: Location, Visitor Center Classroom; Watch and learn how these ladies weave their creations with natural materials.
Bird House Plans: Location, Visitor Center; Several build-your-own birdhouse plans are on display. Take home a plan and make a birdhouse to put up at your house.
Arts & Crafts Activities: Location, Visitor Center; Spring means warmer weather and that means butterflies will emerge soon. Come and make your very own tie-dyed butterfly!
Contact: Craig Kasmer
(989) 348-2537
email: kasmerc@michigan.gov
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Wed, 04 April 2012
| Sat, 09 June 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
Hartwick Pines State Park is hosting “Family Fun Day” on June 9, 2012, 10am-4pm. Fishing and Water recreation related programs, including a kids’ fishing tournament, fly-fishing demonstrations and kayak demonstrations will be available.
There is no charge for these events, but a Michigan Recreation Passport is required for entry into the park. Hartwick Pines State Park is located on M-93 (Hartwick Pines Rd.), two miles east of I-75, exit 259. For more information, please contact Hartwick Pines State Park at (989) 348-2537.
Hartwick Pines Logging Museum
4216 Ranger Rd. Grayling, MI 49738
phone: (989) 348-2537. fax: (989) 344-6803. email: burgr@michigan.gov
Contact: Rob Burg
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Tue, 03 April 2012
| Sat, 15 September 2012 | ||
| 7:00 PM | to | 9:00 PM |
On Saturday evening, September 15th from 7pm to 9pm, visitors to Hartwick Pines State Park will have the opportunity to journey back to the year 1896 and meet some of the members of the Salling, Hanson and Company’s “Section 9 Camp” as they prepare for the upcoming winter logging season. Costumed interpreters will portray several members of the camp including Karen “Bessie” Michelson (the future Karen Hartwick), a local boarding house owner, the landlooker, the camp clerk, the camp cooks, a teamster, and some of the “shantyboys” –the men who did the cutting of the trees. From these men and women you will learn all about the life in a camp, the variety of work that was done in logging in the Grayling area and the rest of Michigan and some of the dangers of the job.
The Logging Museum will be transformed into the “Section 9 Camp”, which was located in what is now Hartwick Pines for the night. The park visitors will take on the roll of new employees of the Salling, Hanson and Company and will journey from the “Grayling Train Depot” (The Visitor Center) to the logging camp. The lantern lit one quarter of a mile walk between the visitor center and the logging museum will become the eight-mile journey to the camp. While at the museum, converse with the shantyboys about life in the bunkhouse, landlooker N.P. Salling about the search for the tall timber and the camp cooks about the huge appetites of the lumberjacks and how much food they need to cook for them.
After you go through the museum and meet all of the residents of the camp, enjoy the campfire on the “camboose” or head back up to the Visitor Center for a hot beverage. Your visit will likely last approximately an hour, but spend as much time as you would like. Doors of the Visitor Center will open at 6:30, however the tours do not start until 7pm. The last tour will leave at 8:30pm.
There is no charge for this program, but a Michigan Recreation Passport is required for entry into the park. Hartwick Pines State Park is located on M-93 (Hartwick Pines Rd.), two miles east of I-75, exit 259. For more information, please contact Hartwick Pines State Park at (989) 348-2537.
Hartwick Pines Logging Museum
4216 Ranger Rd. Grayling, MI 49738
phone: (989) 348-2537. fax: (989) 344-6803. email: burgr@michigan.gov
Contact: Rob Burg
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Tue, 03 April 2012
| Mon, 03 September 2012 | ||
| 2:00 PM | to | 4:00 PM |
The logging of the white pine in the 19th century was a highly labor intensive industry. From the fellers and sawyers who cut the trees, the teamsters and loaders who loaded the sleds and drove the horses and the river hogs that sent the logs down the rivers to the saw mills, logging was an extremely hard job. This 90 minute program introduces the various jobs in a logging camp, the working conditions in a logging camp and what the pay was for these jobs.
This special program, held at Hartwick Pines State Park, September 3, celebrates Labor Day with a historical perspective.
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Tue, 03 April 2012
| Wed, 04 July 2012 | ||
| 2:00 PM | to | 3:00 PM |
Historical Fourth of July celebration at the Hartwick Pines State Park Logging Museum beginning at 2pm. Brief explanation from historical interpreter about how the 4th was celebrated in the 1800′s, followed by a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Participate in 19th century activities and tour the historic logging museums.
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Mon, 26 March 2012
| Sat, 13 October 2012 | ||
| 5:00 PM | to | 8:15 PM |
The Friends of Hartwick Pines State Park in Crawford County will sponsor their annual Critters in the Moonlight Halloween Walk from 5 to 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the park, located at 4216 Ranger Rd.in Grayling. The event is a fun and educational 45-minute trek through Hartwick Pines trails lit by 100 jack-o-lanterns and lantern lights. Meet up with friendly forest critters along the way. A special trail for small children is about 20 minutes long.
The first tour leaves from the Memorial Building porch at 5 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to wear costumes. For further details, call the park office at 989-348-7068 or Visitor Center at 989-348-2537.
The event is free; however, a Recreation Passport is required for vehicles entering Hartwick Pines State Park. The Recreation Passport has replaced motor vehicle permits for entry into Michigan state parks, recreation areas and state-administered boating access fee sites. This new way to fund Michigan’s outdoor recreation opportunities also helps to preserve state forest campgrounds, trails, and historic and cultural sites in state parks, and provides park development grants to local communities.
Michigan residents can purchase the Recreation Passport ($10 for motor vehicles; $5 for motorcycles) by checking “YES” on their license plate renewal forms, or at any state park or recreation area. Nonresident motor vehicles must still display a valid nonresident Recreation Passport ($29 annual; $8 daily) to enter a Michigan state park, recreation area or state-administered boating access fee site; these can be purchased at any state park or recreation area, or through the Michigan e-Store at www.michigan.gov/estore. To learn more about the Recreation Passport, visit www.michigan.gov/recreationpassport or call 517-241-7275.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state’s natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/dnr.
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Tue, 13 March 2012
A change designed to bolster funding for state forest recreation programs and provide better, more coordinated management of all state-administered campsites and non-motorized pathways was approved at the March 8 Natural Resources Commission meeting.
Department of Natural Resources Director Rodney Stokes signed a land use order, effective immediately, that classifies state forest campgrounds and non-motorized pathways as state recreation areas. It requires campers using state forest campgrounds and persons using the state’s non-motorized trails and pathways to have a valid Michigan Recreation Passport on their vehicle.
In January, a reorganization of the DNR’s former Forest Management Division resulted in the transfer of state forest recreation programs to the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division so that all campgrounds and recreation programs of the Department would be managed by one division.
Since the Recreation Passport was adopted in 2010, it has only been required to enter a state park, recreation area or state-administered boat launch fee site. By requiring the Recreation Passport at state forest campgrounds and non-motorized pathway parking areas, the DNR hopes to increase sales of the Recreation Passport and provide more funding for state forest-based recreation programs.
“We intend to keep all state forest campgrounds open and available for campers,” said Ron Olson, chief of the DNR’s Parks and Recreation Division. “The days of closing state forest campgrounds are over. During this transition, we will raise awareness of the Recreation Passport requirement for state forest campgrounds and non-motorized pathway parking areas, and put those funds back into maintenance and operations of state forest recreation programs.”
The Recreation Passport replaced motor vehicle permits for entry into Michigan state parks, recreation areas and state-administered boating access fee sites. This new way to fund Michigan’s outdoor recreation opportunities also helps to preserve state forest campgrounds, trails, and historic and cultural sites in state parks, and provides park development grants to local communities.
Enforcement of the Recreation Passport at state forest campgrounds and non-motorized pathway parking areas will focus on notification of the change. Visitors who do not have the Recreation Passport will be given the opportunity, without penalty, to secure one for the first year.
Michigan residents can purchase the Recreation Passport ($10 for motor vehicles; $5 for motorcycles) by checking “YES” on their license plate renewal forms, or at any state park or recreation area. To learn more about the Recreation Passport, visit www.michigan.gov/recreationpassport, or call 517-241-7275.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state’s natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/dnr.
Contact: Ron Olson 517-373-9900
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Mon, 13 February 2012
| Sat, 25 August 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
| Sun, 26 August 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
Hartwick Pines State Park will host the annual Black Iron Days Festival on August 25 & 26; the largest annual gathering of blacksmiths in Michigan. Over 50 craftsmen and women will be on hand demonstrating their trade at the logging museum located at the park.
The two-day event, taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, also will recreate the sights, sounds and scents of an historic sawmill cutting logs into boards. Watch woodworkers, weavers and wool spinners as they show how their crafts were done in the era before power tools. Full Moon Jam will be performing a mix of traditional and original music.
The Hartwick Pines Logging Museum is a field site of the Michigan Historical Museum that interprets Michigan’s white pine logging era of 1840-1910. Black Iron Days is sponsored by the Friends of Hartwick Pines. All proceeds go toward interpretive and educational programs at the park.
The park is located at 4216 Ranger Rd. in Grayling in Crawford County. The event is free, however, a Recreation Passport is required for vehicles entering Hartwick Pines. For details on the program, call the park at 989-348-7068.
The Recreation Passport has replaced motor vehicle permits for entry into Michigan state parks, recreation areas and state-administered boating access fee sites. This new way to fund Michigan’s outdoor recreation opportunities also helps to preserve state forest campgrounds, trails, and historic and cultural sites in state parks, and provides park development grants to local communities.
Michigan residents can purchase the Recreation Passport ($10 for motor vehicles; $5 for motorcycles) by checking “YES” on their license plate renewal forms, or at any state park or recreation area. Nonresident motor vehicles must still display a valid nonresident Recreation Passport ($29 annual; $8 daily) to enter a Michigan state park, recreation area or state-administered boating access fee site; these can be purchased at any state park or recreation area, or through the Michigan e-Store at www.michigan.gov/estore. To learn more about the Recreation Passport, visit www.michigan.gov/recreationpassport or call 517-241-7275.
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Thu, 02 February 2012
| Sat, 11 August 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment announced that the Michigan Forest Visitor Center at Hartwick Pines State Park will host its annual Forest Fest on Saturday, Aug. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Forest Fest will provide fun, educational activities designed to help children and families learn about this important natural resource.
Children will receive a natural resource activity booklet and can earn stamps by visiting each activity station. Events include children’s games, exhibits and displays on a variety of forest and natural resource-related topics. Guests can also learn about the health of Michigan’s forests and find out where to go for specific questions and help managing forests on their own private land. Educational handouts will be available, providing information on forest management and health as well as tips on preventing and suppressing wildfires.
Hartwick Pines State Park is located at 4216 Ranger Road in Grayling. The Forest Fest is a free event. However, all motor vehicles entering a state park or recreation area must display a 2012 Michigan Recreation Passport.
For more information about this program or other natural resource-based and historical programs offered at Hartwick Pines State Park, visit www.michigan.gov/hartwickpines and click on the link to the Michigan Forest Visitor Center, contact Craig Kasmer at kasmerc@michigan.gov or Tina McFalda at mcfaldat@michigan.gov, or call the Michigan Forest Visitor Center at 989-348-2537.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2201, the $10 Recreation Passport replaces the state park sticker for access into all state parks, recreation areas and boat launches. To get the Recreation Passport, Michigan residents can check “YES” on their license plate renewal forms. The Recreation Passport also helps preserve forest campgrounds and trails, historic and cultural sites in state parks, and local parks. Where can $10 take you? Visit www.michigan.gov/recreationpassport for more information.
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment is committed to the conservation, protection, management, and accessible use and enjoyment of the state’s environment, natural resources, and related economic interests for current and future generations. Learn more at www.michigan.gov/dnre.
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Thu, 02 February 2012
| Sat, 21 July 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
| Sun, 22 July 2012 | ||
| 10:00 AM | to | 4:00 PM |
Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling will host its annual Wood Shaving Days Festival on July 21 & 22 at the park’s Logging Museum. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, visitors can enjoy the sights, sounds and scents of the historic steam-powered sawmill cutting logs into pine boards; listen to traditional music and enjoy the art of wood carving, wood burning and other woodcrafters. Also included at Wood Shaving Days are demonstrations by blacksmiths, weavers, and wool spinners.
Wood Shaving Days will be held on the grounds of the Logging Museum at Hartwick Pines State Park. The Logging Museum is a field site of the Michigan Historical Museum and interprets the white pine logging era of 1840-1910. Wood Shaving Days is sponsored by the Friends of Hartwick Pines and all proceeds go toward the interpretive and educational programs at Hartwick Pines State Park.
For more information about Wood Shaving Days or other programs at Hartwick Pines, please call (989) 348-2537. There is no charge for attending Wood Shaving Days, but a Michigan Recreation Passport is required to enter the park.
For more information about this event, Hartwick Pines State Park, accessibility or park amenities, contact the park at (989) 989-348-2537 (TTY/TDD 711 Michigan Relay Center for the hearing impaired), or visit www.michigan.gov/hartwickpines.
The DNR is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state’s natural resources for current and future generations.
