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State getting millions for bird habitat

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Michigan is getting a share of $61 million in funding to protect, restore and enhance wetlands and other areas that are migratory bird habitats.  

The Michigan Upper Peninsula Coastal Wetland Project III is getting $1 million to target habitat gaps and habitat management limitations.  And a Michigan project involving the U.P.'s Garden Peninsula is also getting $1 million to help protect land.

The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission recently approved $54.7 million to protect, restore, and enhance more than 200,000 acres of habitat in the United States, Mexico and Canada.  It also approved nearly $6.6 million related to land acquisitions.