Michigan hunting and fishing license sales remained relatively stable in 2025, with deer license sales similar to last year and a roughly 1% decline in fishing licenses sold.
A total of 1,433,630 unique customers purchased a hunting or fishing license in Michigan through Nov. 30, which represents a 0.79% decline from 2024.
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Preliminary results from Michigan’s 2025 bear hunting season show significant overharvests across most of the Upper Peninsula, while harvest in the northern Lower lagged.
Preliminary numbers show state-licensed hunters registered a total of 1,919 bears in 2025, including 1,493 in the Upper Peninsula and 426 in the northern Lower Peninsula.
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The Michigan Natural Resources Commission is considering a new approach to managing coyotes following litigation over a move last year to close the season for three months.
A proposal introduced for information at the commission’s November meeting creates both a traditional hunting and trapping season, as well as a management season to “address interspecies conflict and overabundance on private and public lands,” according to an NRC memorandum.
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Legislation to increase hunting and fishing license fees has cleared the Michigan Senate, but it will face stiff resistance in the House, where lawmakers have raised numerous complaints about the Department of Natural Resources.
Senate bills 276 and 277 cleared the upper chamber with bipartisan support on Oct 21, and were referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources and Tourism.
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A coalition of Michigan anglers is promoting legislation to rework funding for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division in an effort to boost fish production.
Ed Blissick, president of the Great Lakes Salmon Initiative, told Michigan Outdoor News House Bill 5093, introduced in October, stems from a committee formed by a variety of angling interests to address the department’s budget constraints while providing a return on that investment for license buyers.
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Genesee is now the 16th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An adult doe found acting ill in Gaines Township recently tested positive for the disease.
The CWD finding was confirmed by the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which works with the DNR to identify CWD in Michigan’s wild deer herd.
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Legislation recently introduced in Lansing could change how the Michigan Natural Resources Commission operates, with bills to create a separate commission for the Upper Peninsula and to boost transparency.
All members representing the Upper Peninsula in the House introduced a package of bills in late August to establish a separate Natural Resources Commission to manage wildlife decisions above the bridge, a move driven by unique challenges for Yoopers that they argue are often ignored.
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Stakeholders in the Michigan bear hunting community trekked to St. Ignace in August for an update on management and discussions on potential changes for the 2027-28 seasons.
“Right now, we’re at the very beginning of the ’27-28 regulation cycle,” Cody Norton, bear specialist for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, told Michigan Outdoor News. “So we were reporting back on research projects, … and how we calculate population estimates.”
The bear forum meeting also provided an opportunity to “talk about things that sometimes are put to the side,” he said.
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The Michigan Natural Resources Commission earlier this month approved a resolution some have interpreted as a plan to reinstate a year-round coyote hunting season, but that’s not accurate.
“It’s a political spin,” NRC Commissioner Dave Anthony told Michigan Outdoor News. “We’re all working so coyotes can be removed where they’re a problem. That’s our goal. We also want to protect the quiet period so animals have time to raise their young.”
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