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Some 30% of Michigan deer hunters failed to report harvest in 2023

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An estimated 79,615 deer hunters who shot bucks or does throughout Michigan in 2023 failed to report their kills, according to the DNR’s 2023 Deer Harvest Report compiled by DNR statistician Brian Frawley.
The annual mail survey of a random sample of deer hunters came up with a harvest estimate of 347,008 for all 2023 seasons. Only 267,393 kills were reported; a difference of 30%.

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New archery range opens in Upper Peninsula’s Sands Township

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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of longtime members of a Marquette archery club and generosity of a number of area businesses, a 14-target archery range is now up and running near the Marquette County Fairgrounds in Sands Township.
The new archery range replaces one that Deertrack Bowhunters operated and maintained in the city limits near the former Deertrack Village since the 1940s. When the property where the former archery range was located was sold in 2016, the organization was left without a range. Life member and acting president Mark Hirvonen spent years trying to locate a place to establish a new archery range.

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Michigan shed hunter kills black bear in self defense

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Twenty-three-year-old Kyle Nelson from Norway, Mich., killed a black bear in self defense while looking for shed antlers this past spring.
Nelson shot the bear with a CPX2 9 mm handgun that he has with him every time he goes in the woods.
“I was walking along a swamp bottom where I got a buck last fall to try to find antlers from bucks that made it through hunting season,” Nelson said. “At one point I heard a noise by a big pine tree. When I looked toward the sound, a bear stuck its head around the tree about 10 yards away.”

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Roughly 470-pound bear hit by vehicle in Alpena County, Mich.

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A big male black bear with a dressed weight of 409 pounds was struck and killed by a car on M-32 in Alpena County, Mich., on June 10 about five miles east of Hillman.
The bear’s live weight would have been about 470 pounds.
In the fall, that bear would have had an estimated weight of around 600 pounds. No one at the scene of the accident wanted the bear, so the state police officer who investigated claimed the carcass to salvage both the meat and hide.

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Top-scoring bear from Michigan in 2023 aged at more than 20 years old

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J.B. Martin from Kimball, in St. Clair County, Mich., shot the highest-scoring black bear from 2023 that was entered in state records maintained by Commemorative Bucks of Michigan.

He killed the trophy bruin on Sept. 11 in the U.P.’s Ontonagon County while hunting over bait.

The skull from that bear scored 21-8/16, according to CBM. Bear skulls have to measure a minimum of 18 to qualify for state records.

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Michigan hunter shoots bear that had been tagged 180 miles away by Wisconsin DNR

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Gerry Maciok from Republic, Mich., was surprised when he discovered the black bear he shot with bow and arrow in Marquette County on Oct. 11, 2023 was from Wisconsin. A small circular tag on the back of the bear’s ear contained wording that stated, “Call 1-608-935-1940 before consuming; WI DNR.”
When Maciok called the telephone number he found out that the male bear he shot had been tagged as a yearling (one year old) during January of 2021 while in a den with its mother in the northwest corner of Marathon County not far from Wausau.
“The bear traveled approximately 180 miles to where I harvested the bear in Marquette County,” Maciok wrote in an email.

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Mouth of Michigan’s Dead River moved at Marquette’s Upper Harbor

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The mouth of the Dead River in Michigan at Marquette’s Upper Harbor was moved back to where it was in 1939 in a joint dredging project carried out during March between the city of Marquette, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, and the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad, according to City Planner Dennis Stachewicz.
During recent years, the river channel shifted from flowing in an easterly direction into Lake Superior to heading farther north toward the LS&I ore dock.

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Resolution at Michigan United Conservation Clubs convention supports future Upper Peninsula moose hunt

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One of the resolutions the Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) approved at its annual convention in Sault Ste. Marie on March 9 supports establishing a moose hunt in the western Upper Peninsula.
The resolution would limit such a hunt to a maximum of 10 bulls, and the hunters who would receive those limited licenses would be determined in a drawing similar to those currently conducted for elk, bear, and antlerless deer.

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Commentary: Increasing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula bear licenses would benefit the deer herd

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Increasing the Upper Peninsula bear harvest by issuing more bear licenses will increase recruitment of fawns, thereby increasing the white-tailed deer population.
Black bears are major predators on fawns. Retired DNR deer researcher John Ozoga confirmed that single yearling black bears reduced fawn survival by 22% during each year over three years that one bear gained access to the one square mile enclosure at the Cusino Wildlife Research Station in Shingleton.

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