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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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Nearly two-thirds of Michigan Upper Peninsula hunters rate 2023 deer season as ‘poor’

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The Michigan DNR’s annual Upper Peninsula Deer Camp Survey from the 2023 firearms season confirmed that deer sightings and hunter success were down significantly from the year before, especially in the region’s western counties. 
However, buck hunting success actually increased slightly in eastern counties, according to survey results reported by DNR wildlife biologist David Jentoft.

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Michigan business, Bear’s Den Pizzeria, honors bowhunting legend, Fred Bear

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Fans of legendary Michigan bowhunter “Papa” Fred Bear, who don’t already know, will be pleased to learn a Grayling, Mich., business honors the bowhunting pioneer by displaying some of the bows and arrows his company manufactured along with mounts and pictures of some of the big game Bear shot via stick and string.
Bear’s archery manufacturing business was located in Grayling from 1947 through 1978 and so was a museum, until manufacturing moved to Gainesville, Fla., where Bear Archery remains today.

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Michigan man captures rare video of cougar killing a deer

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Eli Schaefer from Houghton, Mich., still can’t believe he was lucky enough to capture video of a cougar killing a white-tailed deer on one of his trail cameras near Toivola in Houghton County on the afternoon of Dec. 30, 2023.
The dramatic video shows a large male mountain lion after it pounced on and overpowers what appears to be a young antlerless deer.

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Mandatory deer harvest reporting in Michigan off by 14% in year one

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Based on the Michigan DNR’s 2022 Deer Harvest Survey Report compiled by DNR statistician Brian Frawley, about 14% of the hunters who shot deer that year did not comply with the mandatory reporting requirement – the first year the state required mandatory reporting.
The estimated harvest from surveys sent to a random sample of deer hunters was 339,189 compared to 297,132 kills that were reported, a difference of 42,057.

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