As the Traverse Bay chapter has done for the past 35 years, members of the chapter did their best to feed populations which appear to be abundant in some areas of Area J, totally depleted in others, in a distribution program that began on January 1 and ended in March, due to lack of funds in our savings account.
The Traverse Bay Chapter of MWTHA opened their feed distribution sites in Gaylord and Charlevoix on December 18 when snow levels averaged a foot or more in Michigan’s north country.
Like last year, after advice from the DNR’s Doug Reeves, it was decided to distribute full rations of shelled corn at the beginning of the winter, to ensure late hatched poults had adequate nutrition to go into winter with. Half rations will be handed out later in the winter.
