
Michigan Letters to the Editor: Grouse, woodcock need a break from hunting pressure
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 12, 2025 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 12, 2025 edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Change occurs on a regular basis. Seasons change. We change baits when fishing and change bullets and guns when hunting.
Often change comes easy, other times it’s a bitter pill to swallow. Regardless of

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ quest for a license fee increase is more than a year old now and is still nowhere near a fait accompli.
The provisions of the new fee structure

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 29, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Opportunistic. That best describes how most animals feed. While carnivores certainly will work a kill for dinner, if they can find an easier meal source from people, they’ll take it – again and again and

It only takes about two clicks on my phone, tablet or computer these days to find a photograph of someone holding a fish, fresh from the lake, being posed for the camera or cell phone.

There has been a lot written about the decline of whitefish in northern lakes Huron and Michigan over the past several weeks, including a story written by editor Bill Parker in the July 18 issue

We live in a world heavily dependent upon social media.
For many of our readers this is a far cry from how we grew up. It really wasn’t that long ago when you caught

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 15, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
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