In mid-August, the National Park Service began investigating a surprise reconfiguration of the Platte River mouth; a manmade effort which federal officials say was illegal, and, depending on how ...

The dramatic shift at the mouth of the Platte River comes after a push from Lake Township to make changes to the waterway. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore says the last time the Platte ...

The river, which winds through the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore before entering Lake Michigan at Platte Bay, cut a channel this month through a long, sandy spit which had previously ...

He was accused of shoveling a channel between the mouth of the Platte River and Lake Michigan on Aug. 15, 2022, after National Park Service officers investigated reports of a diversion of the ...

May 25—HONOR — A Frankfort man has been charged on suspicion of tampering and vandalism in the widening of the Platte River mouth in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Andrew Blair ...

Left, the Platte River mouth in May 2022 before an illegal diversion was cut. Right, the mouth on Aug. 19, 2022 afterward.

Anyone with information on the Platte River mouth is asked to submit a tip at [email protected] or by calling or texting 888-653-0009. More information. Charges may be pending in Platte River mystery.

A man accused of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan has been convicted of two misdemeanors.. Andrew Howard of Frankfort, Michigan, was found guilty of tampering ...

It lets nature be nature, so it allows the mouth of the Platte to meander as it has historically for thousands of years, and it allows the natural resources to be on their own terms, in a sense ...