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Help support the local economy

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Birders, flex your economic muscles. Communities along the North Huron Birding Trail have long made land use choices to attract traditional tourists and their dollars. Birding is big business in Michigan too... but communities will only recognize that if we're visible! Your visibility and economic impact can encourage wildlife conservation. Some ways you can make yourself more visible:
  1. Wear bird t-shirts.
  2. Take your binoculars into the restaurant with you.
  3. Ask local residents in restaurants, hotels, gas stations, etc. about where good birding locations might be in their area.
  4. Put a birding bumper sticker or window decal on your car or business. It speaks for itself, so you don't have to! 
  5. Contact local tourism bureaus and chambers of commerce for assistance planning a birding vacation to the area.

Building public awareness in the value of birding tourism—and being respectful of both private property and the birds themselves—helps advance the efforts to conserve our birdlife.


Diversifying the Local Economy
What Do Birds Have To Do With It?


In December 2016, Nature Change produced a video featuring the founders of the North Huron Birding Trail. It gives insight into the formation of the birding trail and how it will help diversify the Les Cheneaux area economy. 

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“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.” 
― Aldo Leopold

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