Dale Hendershot of Gladwin is the Michigan Department of Natural Resources 2024 Hunter Education Instructor of the Year, an honor bestowed at the June meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Bay City.
More than 6,500 hunters have been selected in the annual drawing for Michigan’s popular bear and elk hunts.
There are 6,278 bear licenses and 260 elk licenses available for the 2025 fall and winter
What Michigan steelhead experts know is how little they know about parts of the life-cycle of these migratory rainbow trout, and they’re mapping ways to fix that.
DNR Lake Michigan Basin Fisheries Coordinator Jay
Michigan health officials issued nearly 1,000 new or updated Eat Safe Fish guidelines for 2025, driven by samples from dozens of new waterbodies and revised thresholds for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS).
The Michigan Department of
Earlier this year, fisheries biologists up north sounded alarms about an ominous trend threatening one of the Great Lakes’ most foundational and key fish species: lake whitefish.
Though not commonly caught by Illinois anglers,
Public support for hunting and sport shooting in the United States remains strong, but highly conditional, according to the 2025 Americans’ Attitudes Toward Hunting and Sport Shooting report, a new national study conducted by Responsive
Michigan hunters harvested more deer – in particular more antlerless deer – last year than in 2023.
In all seasons combined, about 373,000 deer were bagged in Michigan, according to preliminary data reported by
In a case that the Michigan DNR says highlights the importance of the agency’s bear-baiting regulations, state wildlife biologists in Montmorency County recently removed a plastic lid from the neck of a young black bear
Walleye fishing in Michigan would suffer without rearing ponds. Rearing ponds outproduce all of Michigan’s hatchery production by far, and it’s possible that they even produce a better product.
“There’s no question that walleye
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