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I'm Jason Epperson. This is the America's National Parks Podcast and it's time for this

month's National Park News Rowdo. A 63 year old Michigan man has been convicted

for redirecting a river by hand at Sleeping Bear Dunes National

Lakeshore.

U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Mark Totten announced that Andrew

Blair Howard was convicted of a federal misdemeanor for

tampering and vandalism in connection with a 2022 incident.

The Platte River flows through the Sleeping Bear Dunes before it empties into Lake Michigan.

In the summer, paddlers, tube floaters, and beachgoers drift down its meandering waters.

Howard used a shovel to dig sediment and rocks from the river basin and stacked large rocks on a dam to divert the river's natural water flow toward a newly created channel out to Lake Michigan.

The diversion created unauthorized access for large boats to enter

Platte Bay. Within days the natural power of the water and the dam caused the new channel to reach

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