
Michigan Letters to the Editor: Why force steep license fee increases on seniors?
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Jan. 31, 2025, edition of Michigan Outdoor News.

Regarding the front-page story in the January 3 edition of Michigan Outdoor News, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has appointed a new chairman of the state Natural Resources Commission.
Former U.S. Congressman Dan Kildee (D-Flint Township)

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirmed chronic wasting disease is now in 14 Michigan counties after a buck in Mecosta County tested positive this season.
A total of 307 deer in Michigan have

Hunting license sales are up for the second consecutive year in Michigan, but officials aren’t optimistic the trend will continue long term.
Through Jan. 15, the number of individuals who purchased a deer hunting

Inland lakes across the state are covered with ice. Here’s a look at the Michigan fishing and hunting report on Jan. 24, 2025.

Three times the Michigan DNR’s wildlife division asked me in an email for my thoughts about woodcock. I’ll answer, but I wanted to review what I think about woodcock, first. And what I think is:

Finally ice around a good part of the state. So how’s the hard-water bite?

On Jan. 7, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation received “not-warranted” findings as a politically-motivated farewell folly from the Biden administration on two Endangered Species Act petitions requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delist gray wolves

Much of the world changed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We are still living in its aftermath and will be for the foreseeable future. Decades ago, much of the Great Lakes fish populations changed
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