
Michigan Letters to the Editor: Time to extend the late antlerless deer season
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 16, 2024, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 16, 2024, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Scientists call it climate change. Others say it’s the normal fluctuation in weather patterns. Regardless of your view, there’s no disputing that the past couple winters have been much milder than normal.
The current

Michigan’s bear populations are trending in the right direction, with signs the Upper Peninsula population is growing and numbers below the bridge are stabilizing, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
DNR Large Carnivore

Tyler Petroelje, a wildlife research biologist for the Michigan DNR, recently informed the state Natural Resource Commission of a change in the survey method that generates wolf population estimates.
For decades Michigan has

A proposal to shorten the coyote hunting season is raising concern among some in Michigan’s outdoors community.
The Furtaker User Group and the internal DNR Furbearer Workgroup have proposed several furbearer regulation changes that

Caution urged, but ice fishing decent in parts of U.P. A look at the Michigan fishing report from across the state on Feb. 9, 2024.

A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers’ annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
Isle Royale is a

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today said it would develop “a path to support a long term and durable approach for gray wolves in the lower 48 states” including – for the first time

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is announcing the cancellation of the 2024 Black Lake sturgeon season, which was scheduled to start Saturday, Feb. 3.
A harvest limit is set for each Black Lake
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