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Commentary: TB research involving baiting not applicable to Michigan deer herd

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, Opinion /

Research that has been done about the transmission of TB to deer via baiting at the National Animal Disease Lab in Ames, Iowa is not applicable to what happens in the wild in Michigan, but it is being used to ban baiting anyway.
At the same time, information about how the use of bait by deer hunters can increase hunter success and harvest, thereby helping reduce the number of diseased deer on the landscape, is being ignored.

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Michigan taxidermist bags 484-pound ‘booner’ bear

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

Award-winning taxidermist Tim Gorenchan from Escanaba, Mich., of North Country Taxidermy spends most of his time preparing life-like mounts of game and fish that other people shoot and catch, but he now will be using his expertise to prepare a mount of a trophy of his own.
He plans on completing a full mount of a Boone and Crockett qualifying black bear he shot in Menominee County last fall while hunting with hounds owned by Cody Welch.

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Retired biologist pens letter on proposed deer changes in Michigan

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Prior to the May 13 meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, a retired DNR wildlife biologist who has remained active by serving on a deer habitat group sent a letter voicing opinions to proposed deer season changes.
Jim Hammill, who worked in the western UP for 30 years before he retired, noted that managing deer was an important part of his responsibilities as a wildlife biologist.

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Commentary: Why Michigan’s proposed one buck bag limit won’t work in the UP

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A graph compiled by Michigan DNR wildlife biologist David Jentoft that he shared with the Natural Resources Commission at their April meeting clearly shows why a one-buck bag limit won’t work in the UP.
The graph shows the direct relationship between the severity of UP winters and the number of bucks hunters in that region bag on an annual basis.

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Late winter snows likely stressed Michigan’s whitetails

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

Winter deer losses could be high in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan after spring breakup arrived later than normal.
Most snow is normally gone by April 1 in the northern part of the state. A major blizzard that paralyzed the UP and the northern LP on March 15-16 eliminated that timeline.

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New amendments to deer season regulations get reviewed by Michigan NRC

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Proposed amendments made by Natural Resources Commission members at a meeting this month could dramatically change major modifications to the Michigan deer season that had already been recommended prior to the meeting.
It is now “wait and see” for the state’s hunters.

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2025 Deer Camp Survey sheds some light on hunter success in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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Based on results from the Michigan DNR’s annual UP Deer Camp Survey, deer hunting success during the 2025 firearms season was identical to the year before – and on par with average results over the years the survey has been conducted.
In both the 2024 and 2025 hunts, 24% of hunters bagged a buck both years and saw an average of 2.7 deer per hunter day each year. The long-term average for the number of deer seen per hunter day is 2.9.

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What toll did EHD take on Michigan’s deer in 2025? Numbers shed some light

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Roughly 3,000 whitetails from 16 Michigan counties were lost to Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) during 2025, DNR veterinarian R. Scott Larsen told the Natural Resources Commission at their March meeting.
The estimate of losses to the disease only include those from counties where EHD was confirmed to be the cause of death through laboratory examination.

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Iron County bear among oldest ever harvested in Michigan

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A half-mount of an average-looking adult black bear was just added to the walls of Luckey’s Sport Shop in Iron River, Mich.
But the story behind that mount is far from average. The adult female bear shot by local resident Kevin Adams was 27 years old, making it one of the oldest bears bagged in Michigan during the past two decades.

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