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March 12, 2003Read more:MAIN STORY: Deed completes South Fox swap TIMELINE: From 1867 to last Friday DEVELOPER'S VIEWPOINT: Johnson: It was an amazing experience TRIBE'S REACTION: GT Band attorney says fight not resolved yet Island FactsSouth Fox Island lies about 23 miles north of Leland in northern Lake Michigan. Here are some details about the island:• DIMENSIONS: Shaped like a crescent, it's 5.5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide at its widest point. • LAND MASS: Five square miles or about 3,382 acres. Of this 1,230 acres is in public ownership. The remaining two-thirds is owned by David V. Johnson, a developer best-known in northern Michigan for the luxury Bay Harbor development south of Petoskey. • TOPOGRAPHY: The rolling landscape varies from an open sand beach on the east, northern hardwoods in the interior, and high bluffs and spectacular sand dunes along the western shore that cover 560 acres, about 45 percent in state ownership before the swap. The dunes rise upward more than 300 feet and are considered one of the most unique and "globally rare" features on the Great Lakes shoreline, according to 1996 Department of Natural Resources staff memos. • BEACHES: Before the swap, state-owned beaches were mostly sand. Although total public ownership represents about one-third of the island, it included about half of the total shoreline before the swap.
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