Michigan’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
July 1, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the July 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Michigan
NWTF Michigan joins Kirtland’s Warbler Festival in Roscommon
NWTF
July 1, 2025
The Kirtland’s Warbler Festival has been actively celebrating the songbird’s conservation success for more than 30 years. This year, the Michigan National Wild Turkey Federation State Chapter was invited to be part of the celebration,
Michigan Cuffs & Collars: CO helps find stranded subjects on unplowed two-track road
Staff Report
July 1, 2025
Michigan cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR Conservation Officers. These reports are from the July 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Man jailed for theft from Michigan state forest campgrounds
DNR Report
July 1, 2025
A Sunfield, Mich., man returned to the Luce County District Court June 16 for a restitution hearing regarding his involvement in a series of state forest campground thefts in the Upper Peninsula.
Justyn Mark
Dale Hendershot named Michigan DNR hunter education Instructor of the Year
DNR Report
July 1, 2025
Dale Hendershot of Gladwin is the Michigan Department of Natural Resources 2024 Hunter Education Instructor of the Year, an honor bestowed at the June meeting of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission in Bay City.
Michigan Mixed Bag: Drawing results for 2025 bear and elk hunts now available
Staff and News Reports
July 1, 2025
More than 6,500 hunters have been selected in the annual drawing for Michigan’s popular bear and elk hunts.
There are 6,278 bear licenses and 260 elk licenses available for the 2025 fall and winter
Michigan Letters to the Editor: In favor of a license to bait white-tailed deer
Michigan Letters to the Editor
July 1, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the July 4, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.
Outdoor Observations: Coyote legislation introduced in Michigan despite unsettled lawsuit
Bill Parker
July 1, 2025
Despite an unsettled lawsuit on the legality of shortening Michigan’s coyote season by three months, legislation has been introduced in Lansing addressing the coyote hunting and trapping season.
House Bill 4554, introduced by Rep.
Michigan task force recommends more info on life-cycle of steelhead
Steve Griffin
June 30, 2025
What Michigan steelhead experts know is how little they know about parts of the life-cycle of these migratory rainbow trout, and they’re mapping ways to fix that.
DNR Lake Michigan Basin Fisheries Coordinator Jay
