25 Boney Falls Basin 
wildlife viewing
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Photo: Charlie Myers, MGS
This scenic, forested impoundment on the Escanaba River offers beautiful scenery and
good forest and wetland wildlife viewing. A small boat access and a
primitive campground add to the attractiveness of this site.
 Wildlife
Viewing
Eagles and hawks are commonly seen soaring
above the impoundment and river corridor. Woodland songbirds are vocal
residents in the sites forested areas. Timber management on portions of
these upland forested areas has created a diversity of forest age classes,
which attracts and provides breeding habitat for a wide variety of forest
songbirds. The gentle current of the Escanaba
River allows canoeists to enjoy
a long stretch of river upstream from Boney Falls.
An improved canoe portage offers canoeists passage around the dam levee.
Fly fishing for brown trout is popular in this area from June throughout
the summer.
The river is
shallow, so canoeing may be difficult during periods of low water.
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