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- Plaster Creek is a salmon spawning stream, and salmon have been seen as far upstream as the headwaters at Dutton Shadyside Park. The stream is not considered to be a trout stream, but has been designated as a warm water fishery.
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Flora and fauna. Plaster Creek is a salmon spawning stream, and salmon have been seen as far upstream as the headwaters at Dutton Shadyside Park. The stream is not considered to be a trout stream, but has been designated as a warm water fishery.
- 57 sq mi (150 km²)
- United States
- 26 mi (42 km)
- Michigan
May 19, 2006 · #2 · May 19, 2006. Plaster Cr. was/is a warmwater stream. I'm not sure of the water quality, but don't think it's good. There may be some rough fish, if they can live in it. It used to get salmon in it in the fall.
Sep 12, 2021 · Plaster Creek is a salmon spawning stream, and salmon have been seen as far upstream as the headwaters at Dutton Shadyside Park. The stream is not considered to be a trout stream, but has been designated as a warm water fishery. One endangered species Epioblasma triquetra (the snuffbox
Dec 3, 2013 · Walleye and brook trout were lost by the early 1900s, and several of the creek’s tributaries were relegated to underground pipes, including a four mile stretch of Burr Oak Creek, today known as Silver Creek, one of Plaster Creek’s two major feeder streams.
Dec 1, 2014 · 12/1/2014. Academics. plaster creek stewards. Tweet. Perhaps the best way to understand Kent County’s Plaster Creek is to start at the end. The creek begins bucolically in Dutton, Mich., near a park and farmers’ fields. But its finish, some 26 circuitous miles later, comes in a heavily industrial section of Grand Rapids.
Jul 22, 2014 · Plaster Creek is still decades away from being a healthy stream again. In order for that to happen, we must first change the way we think about stormwater. The current paradigm sends stormwater into streams as fast as possible, and the subsequent water that enters the stream is too warm and too contaminated.
By the time the first European explorer Samuel de Champlain reached West Michigan in 1615, the Odaawaa Indians (today known as the Ottawa) occupied the Plaster Creek Watershed and called this stream Kee-No-Shay, which means "water of the walleye."