by Editor | May 16, 2023 | Hunting
By Jack Ammerman The Michigan 2023 bear season will soon be upon us. If you’re interested in participating, you must make a move very soon. Michigan bear hunters must enter a lottery for the limited licenses available in the 10 areas designated by the state’s DNR as...
by Editor | Apr 5, 2023 | Fishing, Uncategorized
It’s hard to be patient for spring panfish By Steve Griffin We haunt Saginaw Bay cuts and Lake Michigan drowned-river-mouth lakes several cold weeks before perch, those striped heralds of spring, arrive. Snow squalls sometimes mock our optimism. We slip and slide on...
by Editor | Apr 4, 2023 | Hunting
Without mentors engaging youth turkey hunters and teaching them about conservation, no one will If you’re like me, the spring turkey woods bring a welcome relief from a long winter. Each spring, I try to wring as much as possible out of my favorite season...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2023 | Conservation
By Editorial Staff Cody Norton is the large carnivore specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Norton lives with his wife and children in the Upper Peninsula and is an avid deer, bear, furbearer, and small game hunter, houndsman, and trapper. Q:...
by Editor | Mar 14, 2023 | Conservation, Fishing
By Chris Lamphere This article was originally published in the 2023 Spring Michigan Out-of-Doors Magazine. What will it take to bring Arctic grayling back to Michigan? The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and a host of partner organizations are in the midst of...