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November 1, 2024

An Alaska deer hunter has been found dead in an apparent brown bear mauling, officials say

A 50-year-old hunter has been found dead in an apparent brown bear mauling on an island in southeastern Alaska, authorities said Thursday.
Tad Fujioka, of Sitka, was reported overdue Tuesday evening after not returning from a solo daylong hunting trip on heavily forested Baranof Island, Alaska State Troopers said.

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State forest plan in Michigan includes considerations for deer wintering yards in the UP

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is vetting a new state forest plan that includes special considerations for deer wintering yards in the Upper Peninsula focused on balancing food and shelter long term.
The addition of special analysis units (SAU) in the plan currently open to public comment will allow the wildlife division to set goals for certain species, with benefits for deer that rely on 36 deer wintering complexes across the U.P.

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Wolf depredation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula behind Wisconsin, Minnesota

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula doesn’t see nearly the livestock and pet losses to wolves as does Wisconsin and Minnesota, but that’s largely because there aren’t a lot of farms in the Upper Peninsula.
Brian Roell covered that topic and a review of Michigan’s wolf/livestock conflict program during the Timber Wolf Alliance’s Great Lakes Wolf Symposium Oct. 15-17 in Ashland, Wis. Roell is the large carnivore specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

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A new spawning reef will benefit Michigan’s Saginaw Bay fish

If you build it, bending a phrase from the classic baseball film “Field of Dreams,” they will come. And spawn.
“They” are fish, and the proof is in reproduction observed on the Coreyon Reef, constructed five years ago about seven miles off Saginaw Bay’s eastern shoreline in Michigan and now known to have attracted spawning walleyes and lake whitefish.

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