DNR adds to deer check stations amid stepped-up CWD monitoring
Michigan DNR
November 9, 2017
Wakefield and Watersmeet check stations help ‘Keep the U.P. CWD free’ efforts.
Hunting
Hunter safety education helps keep hunting a Michigan tradition
Michigan DNR
November 3, 2017
Todd Switala has always been a volunteer. He’s coached Little League baseball, swim and soccer teams, led Cub Scout and Boy Scout groups, and he puts on an annual youth sucker-fishing tournament near his home
Another Montcalm County hunter-harvested deer suspected to have CWD
Michigan DNR
October 24, 2017
If confirmed positive, the 1.5-year-old buck, harvested in Sidney Township, would be the 11th free-ranging deer in Michigan found to have CWD.
Activity is increasing in the whitetail woods
Bill Parker
October 24, 2017
Bowhunters in Michigan are finding more and more rubs and scrapes, indicating that white-tailed bucks are on the move and the pre-rut activity surge has begun.
All three Pure Michigan Hunt winners bag elk, bear
Michigan DNR
October 23, 2017
One of the winners also drew an elk tag and, and when all was said and done, both he and his son harvested 6-by-6 elk on the same day.
Ann Arbor expanding culling efforts to manage deer population
Associated Press
October 19, 2017
Goal is to shoot 250 to 350 deer in 2018, up from the 63 killed by sharpshooters hired for Ann Arbor’s first cull in 2016 and 96 killed earlier this year. The budget also calls
Social hour interrupted by ducks
Tom Pink
October 17, 2017
Action on a recent Michigan waterfowl hunt was so fast and furious that the hunters had little time to visit and catch up.
Michigan ringnecks: ‘Pheasant hunting is still alive and well in our state’
Staff and News Reports
October 13, 2017
While Michigan pheasant populations have been in decline for several years, pheasants can be found in southern Lower Michigan and in some areas of the Upper Peninsula, according to the Michigan DNR, with the best
Michigan CWD symposium brings together national wildlife, disease experts
Michigan DNR
October 10, 2017
DNR: Gathering provided an opportunity to share ideas and focus on finding solutions for containing CWD.
