Michigan’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
June 3, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the June 6, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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Michigan Cuffs & Collars: Guilty plea from 2024 deer case
Staff Report
June 3, 2025
Michigan cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the June 6, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Michigan Mixed Bag: State Forest campground in Alger County to close after private land ownership change
Staff and News Reports
June 3, 2025
Forest Lake State Forest Campground, located about 10 miles south of AuTrain in the Upper Peninsula and managed by Indian Lake State Park, will close effective Monday, June 9.
Michigan DNR awards $148,300 in deer habitat grants in the Upper Peninsula
DNR Report
June 3, 2025
Community groups, conservation clubs and even K-12 students in the Upper Peninsula will improve hundreds of acres of land to support the deer population through a matching grant program partially funded by deer license revenue.<br
Michigan Letters to the Editor: NRC, DNR are not using science to manage whitetails
Michigan Letters to the Editor
June 3, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 6, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Outdoor Observations: Legislation to increase cost of Michigan hunting, fishing licenses makes more sense this time around
Bill Parker
June 3, 2025
It’s a fact of life that the cost of living will increase over time. Food prices go up. Fuel prices increase. The cost of electricity creeps higher every year, and my heating bills for natural
Two new members join Michigan Outdoor Hall of Fame
Jeff Nedwick
June 2, 2025
With legacies spanning more than 50 years each, it would be hard to find two individuals more closely associated with their respective fields of outdoor expertise than Al Stewart and Richard Smith. Now both have
March ice storm devastated Michigan’s forest resources
Bob Gwizdz
May 31, 2025
The devastating ice storm in late March that wreaked havoc on northern Michigan did multiple millions of dollars of damage to state forest resources, and its effects are likely to be felt for the next
Backlash pauses euthanasia of nuisance geese in Michigan
Victor Skinner
May 30, 2025
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ plan to euthanize nuisance geese is on pause following backlash from the public and lawmakers.
“One of the Wildlife Division’s objectives is to develop, recommend, and implement policies
