Man who diverted national park river for Lake Michigan boat access guilty of 2 misdemeanors
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Andrew Howard of Frankfort, Michigan, was convicted Wednesday of charges stemming from claims he diverted the Platte River into one of the Great Lakes.
In August 2022, a National Park Service ranger witnessed Howard digging with a shovel so the Platte River in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore would be diverted into one of the Great Lakes, prosecutors said in a court filing.
"Within days, the natural power of the water and the constructed dam caused the river to divert and created a new channel to Lake Michigan that grew to approximately 200 feet wide," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lauren Biksacky said.
"It stayed approximately that wide for the summer and fall season," she added. "There was then an influx in the number of fishermen that came to Platte River boat launch to take advantage of the favorable conditions of access created by the new channel."
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