The 4,000-acre Pointe Mouillee State Game Area is located in the extreme southeast corner of Michigan along the Lake Erie shoreline. It had for many years served as a prime waterfowl hunting area and provided other recreational opportunities. During this century, however, 1,700 acres of the Game Area's vast wetland acreage has been destroyed.
Today, Pointe Mouillee is the site of the largest freshwater march restoration project ever attempted in the United States and possibly the world. Construction by the Army Corps of Engineers of a diked dredged material disposal island set the state for wetland restoration and will create 450 acres of wetlands and uplands. An additional 1,500 acres of wetlands will be restored as a result of a joint federal/state project to achieve water control landward of the island.