Michigan Mixed Bag: Ultimate Sport Show headed to Grand Rapids
Staff Report
March 1, 2023
Outdoor news items from around the state of Michigan from the March 3, 2023 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
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Michigan’s mandatory harvest reports point to ‘memorable’ deer season
DNR Report
March 1, 2023
A look at what some of the numbers show from the first year that Michigan hunters had to report their deer harvest within 72 hours.
Michigan hunters take the most bucks per square mile of any state
Bill Parker
March 1, 2023
Michigan led the country averaging 4.0 bucks harvested per square mile, followed by Delaware at 3.5, South Carolina and Pennsylvania at 3.2, and Louisiana at 3.0. The national average is 1.6 bucks per square mile.
Beyond Michigan: Green Bay muskie weighed nearly 60 pounds
Staff Report
March 1, 2023
Outdoor news items from around the country from the March 3, 2023 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Survey shows that hunters, shooters are affected by rising ammunition costs
Russ Mason
March 1, 2023
Ammunition prices have increased anywhere from 200% to 850% (depending on caliber) since 2000. Although the reasons behind these increases are complex, there has been little attention paid to the potential effect they might have
Michigan conservation groups oppose expansion to National Guard base
Bob Gwizdz
February 28, 2023
A proposed expansion to Camp Grayling National Guard Base in the northern Lower Peninsula, which would more than double the size of the military training reservation, is under fire from conservation groups concerned about potential
Randy Claramunt vows to turn challenges into opportunities as Michigan’s new fisheries chief
Bill Parker
February 27, 2023
Beginning March 5, the Michigan DNR will have a new chief of the fisheries division.
Randy Claramunt, the DNR’s Lake Huron Basin coordinator, has been promoted to fisheries division chief. He replaces Jim Dexter,
Dogs sniffing out CWD deer? One state’s wildlife agency is trying it
Staff Report
February 22, 2023
The Wildlife Futures Program, a wildlife health partnership between the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, determined that dogs can distinguish feces from CWD-infected deer from those of deer
Accelerated funding keeps project moving forward to prevent movement of invasive carp into Great Lakes
Staff Report
February 22, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District recently received $1.5 million from the states to continue advancing the engineering and design of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project on the upper Illinois Waterway.
