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May 10, 2021 A sturgeon swam into the Boardman River in Traverse City last week. That doesn’t happen every day. The last time the Record-Eagle reported such a sighting was May 2019. We hope people get a chance to see more of the gentle giant in the Boardman and in other Michigan waters. The big fish is a spectacular example of long-term survival. Sometimes referred to as a living dinosaur, traces of the sturgeon’s ancestors have been found in fossil records more than 200 million years old. Once common in the Great Lakes, their population declined catastrophically in the 1800s under pressu...

9 & 10 News Becky Ewing to retire May 16th, Sakura Takano will take over as Executive Director. May 7, 2021 Photo Courtesy Rotary Charities Rotary Charities has been around in the Grand Traverse region since the 1970’s. The group distributes oil and gas revenue from property in the Boardman River Valley, to community causes throughout the five-county area. Over the years that’s included things like the State Theater, the City Opera House, and the Park Place Hotel. It also means grants and investments for everything from infrastructure and transportation to arts and culture. Now, Rotary C...

A judge ruled Thursday that the $19.3 million project, which would allow scientists to test technology that allows some fish to pass through a dam on the Boardman River while others are kept out, can’t proceed without voters’ consent.

  The Union Street Dam is the last impediment to a free-flowing Boardman River. Downstream of the dam is a popular fishing spot. Credit Lexi Krupp / IPR News A five-foot-long female sturgeon was spotted this week in the Boardman River in Traverse City. Fishery experts say there's ideal spawning habitat for the species upstream, but the large fish can’t get there — there’s a dam in the way.  The proposed FishPass project at the Union Street Dam could allow native fish like sturgeon to swim up the Boardman River, while keeping invasives at bay, says Marc Gaden, from the Great Lakes Fis...

9 & 10 News April 29, 2021 It’s not quite as mythical or legendary as the Loch Ness Monster, but seeing a sturgeon in Traverse City’s Boardman River is still a pretty rare event. But that’s exactly what’s happened – on several occasions this week. Social media has been buzzing with reported sturgeon sightings, and one woman caught it on camera. Leah McCallum walks along the Boardman going to and from work, and says she just looked down one day and saw the giant fish. “I walk to work all the time. I cross that bridge, I’ll cross this bridge and peek in the water. And – right p...