A big Michigan black bear ended up as road kill on Traverse City’s River Road about 11 p.m. on March 25. The large bear had a dressed weight of 435 pounds and its live weight was estimated to have been at least 500 pounds.
Big bear hit by car in Traverse City, Mich. Read More »
One of the oldest wild whitetails on record for Michigan, as well as anywhere else in North America, died on March 12, 2025. She was almost 20 years old. To be exact, she was 19 years and 10 months old, according to rural Ingham County resident Bryan Hearit.
The old doe spent most of her life on 30 acres Hearit and his wife own, with their home in the middle of the property.
Michigan wild doe dies at nearly 20 years old Read More »
After a record mild winter during the first months of 2024, the winter of 2025 is back to average across the Upper Peninsula, according to DNR Deer Specialist Chad Fedewa.
Michigan whitetails handling average snowfall, though impact can vary in the U.P. Read More »
There may have been three cougar kittens born to a female mountain lion in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula instead of two, according to hunter and trapper Derrick Guzek from Ontonagon. Guzek photographed one of the kittens and spent time tracking them and their mom in the snow 24 hours after photographing the kitten.
“I was at my buddy’s house after plowing his driveway when he said, ‘Maybe you can get a picture of that bobcat,’ after seeing a cat walking in his driveway through a window,” Guzek said.
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.
Commentary: It’s time to issue more bear licenses in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Read More »
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.
Bobcat hunting hounds tree cougar in Michigan’s Mackinac County Read More »
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.
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.
Coyote attacks young girl in Michigan’s Alcona County Read More »
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.
Three bucks with two bullets? Here’s how it happened for one Michigan hunter Read More »
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