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MIDLAND, MI – Getting stuck in the Tittabawassee Riverbed was all worth it on a sunny Friday morning.

The Chippewa Nature Center hosted a public lake sturgeon release event at the Bob G. Caldwell Municipal Boat Launch on Aug. 22.

All told, there were 137 young sturgeons released.

Saginaw Bay Sturgeon Restoration director Michael Kelly said sturgeons have been around for about 130 million years, making them dinosaur-like in age and how they look.

“For most of that time, they’ve done just fine. It was only the last couple of hundred years where they had problems, like habitat degradation, overfishing, and a couple of other factors,” Kelly said.

Michigan is in the center of the lake sturgeon’s historic range as they were common in all the Great Lakes in the early 1800s,

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