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Bob Gwizdz: Are walleye slot limits on the horizon for some Upper Peninsula waters?

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

Catch-and-release fishing these days is pretty much the province of bass anglers, trout fishermen, and muskie aficionados, but it’s quickly becoming important to walleye fishermen, too.
Think not? Well, the droves of guys who are plying the hard water of the Saginaw River in Michigan this winter may not have gone there specifically to catch and release walleyes, but they’re doing it.

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Bob Gwizdz: Never leave fish to find fish

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

One of the benefits to being a journalist is you have access to people who know stuff.
Regardless of your job, you are generally dealing with folks who are on their game – the mayor, the football coach, the police chief, etc. But if you spent your career on the hook-and-bullet beat, you can have access to the best hunters and anglers. One of my favorite sources is Mark Martin, walleye fisherman extraordinaire.

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Bob Gwizdz: Canada geese are a conservation success story in Michigan

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources gets a lot of guff – not all of it undeserved – for its management practices, but one area where the agency hit the ball out of the park and you don’t hear a lot of chatter about is its goose management.
We have outstanding goose hunting and most of it has to do with something the department (or its predecessor, the Conservation Department) did decades ago.

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Michigan DNR promotes mass timber development

Featured, Michigan, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Ever heard of mass timber? It’s a growing trend in the forest products industry in which wood is used to make structural elements such as columns, beams or panels for construction products instead of using steel or concrete or in conjunction with traditional building materials.
Scott Whitcomb, director of public land at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, says you can think of mass timber as “plywood on steroids.”

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Bob Gwizdz: Making sense of the unwritten rules in hunting and fishing

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Fishing, National Hunting, Opinion /

Hunting and fishing are a lot like baseball in some ways. There are rules and there are unwritten rules. Like you always take a 3-0 pitch. There’s no penalty for swinging at a 3-0 pitch – except for the occasional side eye – but you rarely see guys swinging away. The bulk of players respect the unwritten rule.
In hunting and fishing the unwritten rules are less well respected and break down according to whichever tribe with which you associate.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan’s upland bird season was frustrating yet enjoyable

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Anyone who has read these missives from my little corner of the world has probably picked up on my proclivity for participating on the last day of the season.
For instance, I always tried to go trout fishing on Sept. 30, even though most of my favorite streams are open to year-round angling in Michigan, even if the so-called “possession season” on brown trout ended that day.

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Public land solar farm plan stalled in Michigan

Featured, Home Page News, Michigan, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

A controversial proposal that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was considering to lease some 400 acres of forest land in Otsego County for the development of a solar farm has been stalled, but it isn’t necessarily dead.
The proposal, which would have placed a solar farm near another bigger proposed project on private land, was submitted by RWE Clean Energy.

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Bob Gwizdz: Michigan’s pheasant release program still gaining support

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, Opinion /

Elvis, my number one bird hunting partner, went on point in the tall grass, maybe 25 yards ahead of me.
I got there directly, stomped around in the grass for about 10 yards, then went back and tapped him on the head – that’s how I release him from a point – but he didn’t want to move. I gave him a little tug on the collar and coaxed him forward, he moved to about where I had been, and pointed again.

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Bob Gwizdz: Biologists worry CWD will be a long-term issue in Michigan’s deer herd

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting /

It’s been a while since chronic wasting disease has been in the news in Michigan, so I thought I’d take a look at the literature. I called Chad Stewart, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ top deer guy, to review where we stand. Here’s what I found out.

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