The Michigan DNR says deer hunters can expect relatively good hunting this year. Deer numbers are highest in the southern third of the state and decline further north.
Here is a look at what hunters might be able to expect across the state.
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Back in the early 1970s, my dad and a buddy harvested wild rice from a small lake near the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge. My parents stored the wild grain in coffee cans, and Mom cooked it as a side dish just once a year, on Thanksgiving.
The stuff keeps forever, and we enjoyed that Minnesota wild rice for nearly 20 days of thanks. It may have been my favorite part of the holiday, and I always wondered why we didn’t eat more of it.
Maybe because even though wild rice has a humble background, it’s not cheap. A pound of legitimately hand-harvested wild rice from a Midwestern wetland can set you back $20 at a grocery store. Of course, there are more affordable options.
One early fall day many years ago, a friend asked me if I wanted to spend a weekend with him and his cousin and his cousin’s buddies hunting deer out of their Southern Tier camp in New York. At the time, I preferred hunting solo, using the still-hunting and stalking method for getting my venison. However, curiosity got the best of me.
Back then, Sunday hunting in New York’s Southern Zone, was prohibited, and shotguns were the only legal hunting implement allowed during the regular gun season. I decided to take him up on his offer.
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Few topics in the deer space divide hunters into opposing factions quite like the October lull does. Many hunters believe the first few weeks of October are so slow that it’s not worth even hunting. They argue that it’s better to stay out of the woods and keep things calm before they start to hunt hard during the pre-rut.
Hunters on the other side of the aisle make the case that the lull, just like moon phase, certain weather events, and a host of other factors, might influence deer, but they don’t take you out of the game. They reason that it’s better to keep hunting and to try to figure out where the deer went, instead of giving up. This latter group is largely right, but that doesn’t make the task easy.
One of the top priorities of organized sportsmen early on was the elimination of trade in wildlife. State enforcement efforts, however, remained weak.
At the federal level, Congress had yet to insert itself into the wildlife protection scheme for two reasons. The first principle flowed directly from the passage of the Bill of Rights, and more specifically, the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
Histories Forgotten: The 1900s, Federal intervention for wildlife and the Lacey Act Read More »
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