Lansing, Mich. — Epizootic hemorrhagic disease continues to affect deer across Michigan, with cases in 15 counties prompting the DNR to launch an online map tracking the outbreak.
The new map identifies locations where suspected EHD cases have been reported, giving hunters a better understanding of where the disease may be reducing local deer populations.
Michigan EHD outbreak pushes DNR to add hunter tool Read More »
Lake whitefish facing steep population declines in lakes Michigan and Huron could find new spawning habitat in Michigan rivers, and a research project on the Muskegon River aims to determine whether the fish can return to that historic behavior.
The Michigan DNR and a coalition of conservation, tribal and academic partners will use acoustic telemetry to track adult lake whitefish in the river between Croton Dam and its mouth at Lake Michigan.
Michigan project tracks lake whitefish in Muskegon River Read More »
Illinois hunters, landowners and others concerned about chronic wasting disease will have to wait until next fall for another opportunity to hear directly from state wildlife officials about the future of the state’s management program.
DNR announced that it is temporarily suspending public meetings scheduled for this fall throughout northern and west-central Illinois as it “develops revised goals, objectives and surveillance strategies for combating CWD.”
Illinois DNR hits pause on CWD meetings as strategy evolves Read More »
A federal funding measure that could deliver $1.9 billion to Great Lakes restoration over four years could help Michigan conservationists restore critical wild turkey habitat, giving the state’s birds more of the open woodlands and rich ground cover they need to thrive.
Legislation could help strengthen funding for Michigan’s turkey habitat Read More »
The Conservation Fund has purchased 346 acres in southern Illinois that will provide public access to the state’s newest fish and wildlife area while expanding opportunities for hunting, fishing and wildlife observation.
The acquisition will help resolve access issues that have kept the 1,728-acre Orient Bottoms State Fish and Wildlife Area closed to the public since DNR acquired the property in 2024.
You could legitimately question what Illinois fisheries biologists were thinking decades ago when they decided to introduce rainbow trout to a state where cold-water streams are barely more common than mountain ranges.
Still, somehow the idea stuck. So for a few weeks each spring and fall, Illinois anglers get a chance to catch a fish that is almost impossible to find outside of Lake Michigan.
Rainbow trout stocking creates an angler tradition in Illinois Read More »
Stocking a river with 7,500 mussels is a little different than stocking it with fish.
Fish can swim away on their own. Mussels can’t. That’s why Michigan DNR biologists and their federal partners had to carefully place thousands of endangered snuffbox mussels in suitable habitat across three Michigan waterways.
Endangered mussels stocked in three Michigan waters Read More »
Nearly 1,500 fish representing 30 species, including a 27-inch walleye and an unexpected brown trout, were captured in a recent survey of Sanford Lake – early evidence that Michigan’s Four Lakes fishery is beginning to rebuild six years after catastrophic flooding.
The survey, conducted shortly after Sanford Lake returned to its legal summer level, also produced large numbers of crayfish and was dominated by minnows and shiners, suggesting the lower levels of the aquatic food web are responding quickly to newly available habitat.
Michigan’s Four Lakes fishery rebounds years after flooding Read More »
Illinois wildlife officials were given a 45-day extension to clean up rules governing a new system designed to give farmers and landowners more flexibility in dealing with deer that damage their property.
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules voted Sept. 15 to extend the Second Notice period for DNR’s rules governing Deer Removal Permits. The rulemaking, 17 IAC 526, will return to JCAR for consideration at its Oct. 20 meeting.
Illinois’ nuisance-deer permit rules win extension for language fixes Read More »
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