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Sales tax proposal could help fund DNR

Mount Clemens, Mich. – State Rep. Joel Sheltrown, D-West Branch, is drumming up support for a proposal that would allow sportsmen to continue to fund the lion’s share of the DNR budget, while not costing

New brown trout strain could be stocked in ’09

Oden, Mich. – A new strain of brown trout being raised by the Michigan DNR could be introduced to streams across the state beginning in 2009. The Sturgeon River strain of brown trout eventually will

Timber wolf shootings decrease in fall of ’07

Marquette, Mich. – State officials are cautiously optimistic that the number of wolves killed by humans during the November hunting seasons has dropped drastically from an all-time high of five in 2006, to one on

Exotic shrimp is new Great Lakes invader

Ludington, Mich. – Researchers believe yet another new exotic species, the bloody red shrimp, could be having an impact on Great Lakes fish populations. Steve Pothoven, fisheries biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

‘Big’ kings wanted for Lake Michigan

Ludington, Mich. – Chinook salmon abundance in Lake Michigan should begin to decline this year, and fisheries managers say that’s a good thing. Currently, they say the predator-prey balance in the lake is skewed, a

2007: The year in review

An agreement on inland hunting, fishing, and gathering rights for tribal members and the DNR’s roller-coaster budget (that went from an $8 million deficit in the Game and Fish Protection Fund to a $10 million

Southern Lower

Union Area Anglers are starting to ice fish on the smaller lakes in the area where there is up to 4 inches of ice. Bluegills and crappies are hitting wax worms and minnows on Eagle

Agreement reached in trust fund lawsuit

Lansing – The state of Michigan and owners of mineral rights the state had claimed through tax foreclosure have reached an agreement that seems to offer some protection to the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund.

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