Hunting

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

By Steve Griffin Field Editor Midland, Mich. — Michigan hunters and boaters, buying their licenses and boat fuel, contribute to dedicated funds used to benefit wildlife, hunting, and boating; funds that would be used, that

Bill Parker Editor East Lansing, Mich. — With the lion’s share of testing complete on animals from the 2005 hunting seasons, no chronic wasting disease has been found in free-ranging white-tailed deer or elk in

By Kurt Krueger Correspondent Paulding, Mich. — Controversy is brewing over a power company’s plan to sell 7,300 acres of back land surrounding six flowages in the Upper Peninsula to a development firm – including

Bill Parker Editor Lansing — Representatives from some 30 sportsmens organizations from across the state gathered at the Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ headquarters in Lansing late last month to begin working on a strategy to

By Joe Albert Staff Writer Ottawa, Ontario — As Canada works to honor its climate change commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, ducks could be a main beneficiary, says a major conservation group. Ducks Unlimited Canada,

By Marty Kovarik Correspondent Marquette, Mich. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced it will not appeal U.S. District Court decisions from earlier this year nullifying the service’s reclassification of timber (gray) wolves

By Tori J. McCormick Correspondent Washington — Fearing the Bush administration may renege on its pledge to restore the Great Lakes, the National Wildlife Federation and several conservation and advocacy groups are urging the administration

By Steve GriffinField Editor Midland, Mich. — The future of drilling for natural gas beneath the wilderness-like Mason Tract along the South Branch of the Au Sable River is still up in the air. But