
Michigan DNR expands digital tagging for hunters
Hunters harvesting deer, turkey, bear, bobcat, otter, fisher and marten in Michigan this year will have the option to tag harvested animals digitally through the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish mobile app.

Hunters harvesting deer, turkey, bear, bobcat, otter, fisher and marten in Michigan this year will have the option to tag harvested animals digitally through the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish mobile app.

Michigan’s new fishing license and regulation season begins April 1, and fishing licenses for 2026 are available for purchase. The new licenses are valid through March 31, 2027.

A Van Buren County man received prison time, a large fine, and a lifetime ban from hunting in Michigan for poaching nine trophy bucks nearly five years ago.
Justin Ernst, of Decatur, pleaded guilty

The Michigan DNR recently recognized Jane Gordon for more than four decades of dedicated service as a volunteer hunter safety education instructor, honoring the Charlotte woman’s commitment to training safe, ethical, and responsible hunters across

Michigan anglers have remained somewhat silent on the state’s push to raise the price of hunting and fishing licenses – at least compared to Michigan’s hunters, who have not been as shy when it comes

Over the years, I have made every mistake in the book while pursuing wild turkeys, plus I invented several that nobody knew about.
Now that I’m an expert on all the ways you can

Some lucky deer hunter eventually will shoot a whitetail with antlers bigger than those atop the buck that Milo Hanson killed Nov. 23, 1993, near his Saskatchewan farm.
No hunter will ever tell a

Pheasant Fest 2026 featured lots of sporting dog attractions, as usual.
On the Bird Dog stage, Dr. RuthAnn Lobos, senior veterinarian at Purina, dispensed reams of preventative wisdom during a seminar at the Minneapolis

Citizens in Michigan are much more supportive of hunting and trapping than the general public in other states.
Fishing also gets an enthusiastic “thumbs up.” Yet oddly – or maybe not so oddly
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