Michigan

Washington – The latest version of legislation that would increase the price of the federal duck stamp, enabling stamp funding to keep pace with current land prices, hit a load of birdshot earlier this month

Marquette, Mich. – Wildlife officials and deer hunters breathed a sigh of relief as it became certain the end of winter would come early in the western Upper Peninsula. An early onset of winter, below

Midland, Mich. – Michigan black bear managers have a clearer idea where they’re going – and to a large degree, they’ve been headed in that direction already. At the June meeting of the Natural Resources

Lansing – Slightly more deer hunters hit the woods in 2008 than in 2007, and they combined to kill a few more white-tailed deer than in ’07. That was the message DNR_research biologist Brian Frawley

Gladstone, Mich. – Forested openings, and stands of white pine and red oak trees will provide additional cover for white-tailed deer in the Upper Peninsula under a new cooperative funding effort through the DNR. Bill

Lansing – Michigan’s seven regulatory categories of inland trout streams could become just four under a proposal drafted by the DNR’s Fisheries Division. The goal, said biologist Todd Grischke in a phone interview with Michigan