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July 11, 2025

Michigan DNR seeking public’s help as it launches 2025 turkey brood survey

Michigan residents, are you ready to talk (or spot) wild turkeys?
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources needs your help to tally wild turkeys this summer. From July 1 through Aug. 31, the DNR will run its annual wild turkey brood survey – a community science effort for people statewide to report sightings of wild turkeys and turkey broods (hens with their young).

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Officers arrest two men for pay pipe thefts at Michigan campgrounds

An Eaton County man was sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay thousands in restitution and reimbursement for money he stole from state forest campgrounds last fall.
That case concluded just weeks after conservation officers arrested a Grayling man for a similar scheme following a multi-year investigation. Justyn Mark Spitzley, a 36-year-old from Sunfield, faced a restitution hearing in Luce County District Court recently after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of larceny between $1,000 and $20,000, and a misdemeanor for operating a vehicle on a suspended license.

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Coyote lawsuit against the Michigan Natural Resources Commission dismissed

It’s “abundantly clear” the Michigan Natural Resources Commission “used sound scientific management” in its decision last year to shorten the coyote hunting season, a judge ruled in June.
Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Morgan Cole last month dismissed a lawsuit from Michigan United Conservation Clubs and Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association that alleged the NRC’s March 2024 vote to close the season from April 15 through July 15 violated Proposal G, a ballot initiative approved by voters in 1996 that gives the commission sole authority to make wildlife management decisions based on “principles of sound scientific management.”

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