Michigan
NRC to detering antlerless tag quotas at July meeting
Lansing – The state Natural Resources Commission is scheduled to vote at its July 9 meeting in Lansing on a proposal to set antlerless deer-hunting permit quotas for the 2009 hunting season. The DNR is
Bear management plan is approved
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
Survey: ’08 deer kill rises slightly
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
Winter varied from harsh to average for U.P. deer
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
June 20 – Bass season opens on Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers.
License lottery would add options
Lansing – The question, as posed by Dirty Harry in the classic Clint Eastwood films, is: “Do you feel lucky?” If you do, you may be able to test that luck by buying one or
New effort to improve U.P. deer habitat
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