Michigan cuffs and collars are field reports from Michigan DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the Jan. 5, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
With all of the technological advancements available to hunters today, it leaves many outdoorsmen and women seeking to find ways to shoot at animals further away or see when and where they are moving at specific times in specific areas.
I am not against any of these advancements and the opportunities they may provide to hunters, but I will say this: they do not make up for woodsmanship and experience in the outdoors.
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Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sportsmen’s groups have been sounding the alarm – to no avail – concerning the destruction caused by the uncontrolled wolf population. The 2023 U.P. deer harvest is on track to break yet another worst-year record.
Hunting is a billion-dollar industry in Michigan, and much of that revenue is spent in the U.P. We will definitely take a hit with lost jobs and revenue due to poor wildlife management in the U.P.
The wood duck box on my pond in Froggy Bottom has an unexpected return resident this fall – a gray screech owl.
The little owl’s appearance was welcome, for I think it may be the same one “Whoo” spent the winter here a year ago. Over the 40-plus years that the box has perched at the southwest corner of the pond, down by the creek, awaiting a guest. Alas, it has been had been a forlorn, empty sentinel.
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Based on the Michigan DNR’s 2022 Deer Harvest Survey Report compiled by DNR statistician Brian Frawley, about 14% of the hunters who shot deer that year did not comply with the mandatory reporting requirement – the first year the state required mandatory reporting.
The estimated harvest from surveys sent to a random sample of deer hunters was 339,189 compared to 297,132 kills that were reported, a difference of 42,057.
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New voting is underway for 2024 River of the Year in an annual competition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
This year’s candidates are the Allegheny and Youghiogheny rivers in western Pennsylvania and the Lackawaxen River in the northeast region.
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