Hunting

By Marty Kovarik Correspondent Marquette, Mich. — Spurred by a proposed mining effort, the Sierra Club has teamed with the Huron Mountain Club to petition the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the coaster

By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Washington — It could be a defining time period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Between now and mid-April, landowners currently in the program and those who would like to

By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Washington — While a final 2007 federal budget likely is months away, conservation groups are, for the most part, happy with how things are starting out. Others say national parks

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Lansing — The state’s largest outdoors group worries that a public access provision of the new Commercial Forest Act, while appearing to boost access efforts, may have the opposite effect.

By Bill Parker Editor Lansing — Hunters expecting sweeping changes in the DNR’s deer management strategy likely were disappointed last week when the department presented to the state Natural Resources Commission its deer management population

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Midland, Mich. — State Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, has launched an effort which would culminate in making crossbows legal choices for senior bowhunters, not just those with medically qualified

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Midland, Mich. — How would you solve the DNR’s money problems? That question is being posed to a work group established by the Natural Resources Commission and chaired by NRC

State seeks continued reduction in whitetail herd By Bill Parker Editor Imlay City, Mich. — Michigan’s white-tailed deer herd is within the DNR’s proposed population goals in the northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, but