Leftover hunting licenses! If you forgot to apply or missed out on your first choice, there is still a change to get in on the deer and turkey hunting action this fall in Michigan. Since navigating the Michigan DNR website can be a challenge, I wanted to share the direct links to get more information: [...]
What’s Better Than Leftover Meatloaf?If you are a regular listener to public radio, you may have already heard the recent series by Lester Graham with Michigan Watch, the investigative unit of Michigan Radio. Here are links to the full series (with audio and the text version available): Collapse of the salmon economy (part 1) Big returns for subsidized fish [...]
Michigan Salmon on the (Air) WavesHeading out to check my trailcams last week I stopped by one of my food plots. Pulling up on the 4-wheeler, I noticed that I wasn’t seeing many fresh nibbles in the soybeans which told me that the deer are starting to make their transition. Early in the summer through early August or so, whitetails [...]
Field of DreamsThe deadline for declaring feral pigs an invasive species has passed. Sort of. In December of 2010, former DNR Director Rebecca Humphries signed an order listing wild pigs as an invasive species effective July 8, 2011. If the Michigan legislature was not able to approve legislation that would effectively regulate the facilities that own these [...]
Swine Saga Continues This FallIn recent weeks we have received many calls and e-mails wondering when they will be able to hunt with their kids or grand-kids since Gov. Rick Snyder signed the Mentored Youth Hunt Program into law. Unfortunately, the answer is: not yet. As much as we would have loved to strap our kids in camo from [...]
Michigan Mentored Youth Hunt Program UpdateBag Limits After a good production year in the breeding grounds, waterfowl bag limits for ducks remain the same from last year, which is the maximum allowed by the federal waterfowl framework: 6 ducks per day of which no more than three can be wood ducks, two pintails, one black duck, two redheads, two scaup, [...]
Duck, Duck, Goose! Upcoming Waterfowl Seasons SetMore than 11,000 bear hunters will take to the woods this fall in Michigan, however many more people will enjoy the entire process of the hunt. If you are one of the lucky ones, there is one key thing you should know this season—hold the chocolate. In October of 2010, a black bear cub was [...]
Bear Season on the Menu; Hold the ChocolateAs you might recall, sportsmen and snowmobilers across Michigan overwhelmed the USDA Forest Service with more than 9,000 comments on the proposal to ban gun hunting and snowmobiling within Primitive and Semi-primitive Non-Motorized areas on the Huron-Manistee National Forests. This proposal was prompted by the result of a legal decision by the U.S. Court of [...]
Update on Huron-Manistee National Forest Court CaseAfter receiving my fourth call of the morning regarding questions about Michigan’s Hunter Safety Education classes, I figured everyone already has their mind on fall. It’s wonderful that so many families will be continuing the tradition of getting kids into the outdoors and we expect many more to join them when the Mentored Youth Hunting [...]
Hunter Safety Classes Abound, Find One HereToday I got the call that everyone likes to get from their taxidermist: “Your buck is done, come pick it up.” I feel kind of bad because, to be honest, I forgot all about it. Between planting food plots, running trailcams and fishing, I hadn’t given the buck much thought since I dropped it off [...]
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