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Bob Gwizdz: How many flushes does it take to kill a grouse?

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My buddy Jeff Greene, a retired wildlife biologist who shows up in this space from time to time, once told me that he’d read somewhere that it takes 12 flushes to kill a ruffed grouse: three you don’t see, three you see, but are out of range, three are within range but are somewhere you can’t shoot them, and you’ll shoot at three of them and kill one.
And while that formula may hold in some places, some times, it’s not how I’ve found things over the past couple of years in early October in Michigan.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan’s proposed spring turkey regulation changes make sense

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has recommended some of the most significant changes to spring turkey season since almost ever.
The Natural Resources Commission is expected to act on the recommendation at its Nov. 6 meeting in Lansing. The recommendation has four goals: to simplify regulations, streamline procedures, improve hunting opportunities, and protect the wild turkey population, said Adam Bump, the DNR’s upland game bird specialist.

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Bob Gwizdz: Abundant beavers creating management dilemmas in Michigan

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Beavers are making a comeback in Michigan. Once extirpated from the southern Lower Peninsula, the toothy critters are showing up in places such as Ann Arbor and even the Detroit River.
At one time they were so well protected that there was a yearly bag and trappers had to bring in the carcasses and have them sealed. Now, there is no bag limit and a lengthy season, from late October through April, as long as it’s ever been in recent memory.

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Pheasant season zone expansions, changes lead to more opportunities for Michigan hunters

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As usual, pheasant season opens Oct. 20 in southern Michigan, but there are a few changes this year that should lead to increased opportunity for sportsmen.
The biggest change is that all of Zone 3 is open for the entire season this year. When pheasant season was expanded to include December, the boundaries were set so some parts of Zone 3 were not included, mostly in the southwestern part of the state.

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Bob Gwizdz: Time to bring back the trout stamp in Michigan

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Michigan’s proposed hunting and fishing license fee increase appears to be, if not dead in the water, on serious life support.
While the Senate version of a fee increase bill is still breathing, the House has passed an overall budget that slices appropriations to the Department of Natural Resources dramatically. And I’m told by Lansing insiders that even if the Senate bill goes through, it has virtually no chance in the House, because one representative with a lot to say about it has an axe to grind with the DNR.

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Bob Gwizdz: A reminder that fishing is not rocket science

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I got an email from my buddy Jeff Greene recently. He said he’d just read my column on fishing the Hex hatch – in which I lamented that most of my fishing buddies were wimping out on me when I was trying to get them to go – and he invited me to come fish with him.
I first met Greene, a retired Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist, 35 years ago when he was working in the Jackson district. We hunted pheasants together, a few times, until he transferred to the Paris field office, where we continued our relationship chasing grouse and woodcock.

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Michigan hunters should be aware of lingering damage from March storm

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With hunting seasons right on the doorstep, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding sportsmen that much of the northern Lower Peninsula was affected by the early spring ice storm that toppled trees and closed roads.
“If people haven’t been in the area that’s impacted by the ice storm it’s going to look different and it’s going to be different,” said Kerry Heckman, with the DNR’s Forest Resources Division. “There’s a lot of work that has been done and a lot of work still to be done.”

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Scarecrows helping crop production inside Michigan’s Shiawassee State Game Area

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Eric Ray, 50, loves the Shiawassee River State Game Area in Michigan. It’s been that way since his dad took him duck hunting there when he was a young teen.
“It was the first place we hunted ducks,” Ray told Michigan Outdoor News. “We hunted in what’s Zone 12 now – back in that day it was Zone 5 – we paddled a canoe in there, set out some decoys. The first duck I shot was a black duck and since then I’ve been completely obsessed.”

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan hunting, fishing license fee proposal not as dramatic as last one; will it pass?

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ quest for a license fee increase is more than a year old now and is still nowhere near a fait accompli.
The provisions of the new fee structure have changed dramatically from the version introduced last legislative session, with generally smaller fee increases and a significantly less dramatic cut to the senior discount with a tie-barred companion bill that would require the Legislature reimburse the Game and Fish Protection Fund from the General Fund for those discounts.

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