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Commentary: It’s time to issue more bear licenses in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources claims it needs to raise the cost of hunting and fishing licenses because the number of hunters is declining, which is not entirely true.
The number of deer hunters is declining, but the number of bear hunters is increasing and so are bear numbers in the Upper Peninsula because the DNR is selling too few bear licenses.

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Bobcat hunting hounds tree cougar in Michigan’s Mackinac County

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After years of reported sightings and more than 100 trail camera photos of cougars in the Upper Peninsula, one of the big cats finally was treed by hounds on December 1, 2024 in Mackinac County.
The hounds that treed the mountain lion are owned by John Rickley from St. Ignace. He put his hounds on the track of a bobcat, but the dogs ended up switching to the fresher trail of the wild cat.

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Michigan hunter promotes CWD testing after shooting first positive whitetail from his area

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Joe Wilson from Bellevue, Mich., is on a campaign to encourage more Michigan hunters to have their deer tested for CWD after he bagged an adult buck last fall that was the first whitetail from Eaton County’s Walton Township to test positive for the disease.
He shot the buck on Nov. 1, 2024, during archery season and “it showed no physical signs of being sick,” Wilson said.

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Coyote attacks young girl in Michigan’s Alcona County

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A coyote upset plans for a merry Christmas for the LaFond family at Glennie, Mich., when the wild canine attacked 3-year-old Ava after she arrived at her grandparents’ house on Christmas Eve.
Devin LaFond, from Republic, had driven from the Upper Peninsula to his parent’s house in Glennie, in the northeast Lower Peninsula, so he and his daughter could spend Christmas with them. They pulled in the driveway of the Glennie residence between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

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Three bucks with two bullets? Here’s how it happened for one Michigan hunter

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Kyle Sickelsteel from Howard City had a terrific firearms deer season in Michigan. He ended up with three adult bucks in Montcalm County after firing just two bullets out of his 6.5 Creedmore.
Two of the whitetails were of trophy proportions. The pair of bucks he got with one bullet on Thanksgiving morning had their antlers locked. The smaller 7-pointer that the 12 locked antlers with was already dead.

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Menominee Co. sees second highest whitetail harvest of Michigan firearms season

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Although U.P. deer numbers generally are lower from previous years over most of the region, at least one county still has plenty of whitetails. Menominee County came in second place statewide for the number of deer reported taken during the 2024 firearms season at 3,513. The only county in the state with a higher reported harvest as of December 3 was Sanilac at 4,094.

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Two black bears relocated from Upper Peninsula’s Grand Island

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In response to conflicts between black bears and visitors to Grand Island near Munising, Mich., a pair of black bears recently were live trapped and moved to the mainland. One of the bears was a small one that appeared to be a 1.5-year-old yearling and the other was an adult estimated to weigh 250 pounds.
“One of the bears that was removed from the island had gotten seven backpacks,” said an employee at the Grand Island Ferry who wished to remain anonymous.

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Michigan DNR blames coyotes for killing 21 sheep on Engadine farm

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Engadine, Mich., farmers Kevin and Andrea Kalnbach lost 21 sheep to coyotes on July 30 that were in an 18-acre pasture surrounded by what was supposed to be a predator-proof fence.
Coyotes gained access to the pasture through a hole in the fence. The carcasses of eight sheep were found by DNR employees Kristie Sitar and Rachel Legget, and 13 more were missing out of the Kalnbach’s flock of 123 animals.

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Commentary: Ban on baiting has not reduced Bovine TB prevalence rate in Michigan

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Michigan’s ban on deer baiting that has been in effect in the Lower Peninsula since 2019 and in deer management unit 452, in the northeast LP, since 2002 has not reduced the prevalence rate of bovine tuberculosis among whitetails in DMU 452.
That finding is based on a presentation by DNR Wildlife Health Section Supervisor Mitch Marcus and DNR Wildlife Health Specialist Emily Sewell at a recent Natural Resources Commission meeting.

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