by Editor | Feb 19, 2024 | Conservation
By Nick Green Michigan coyote hunting has the outdoor media spotlight as managers, commissioners, trappers, hunters and anti-hunters debate whether a proposed closure should be enacted. Read the order here. The proposed closure of the current year-round season, from...
by Editor | Dec 13, 2023 | Conservation
Michigan United Conservation Clubs CEO Amy Trotter attends week-long, intensive trappers college training in Indiana. By Amy Trotter, MUCC CEO Maybe fur harvesting is in my blood. Through the extensive genealogy work of a distant cousin, I recently learned that my...
by Editor | Dec 4, 2023 | Conservation
Managers and policymakers need to get creative to solve 21st-century issues plaguing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. By Dr. Russ Mason For decades, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) and its’ seven foundational pillars...
by Editor | Jun 6, 2022 | Conservation, Featured
Whether it is the DNR’s unwillingness to push back against anti-hunters and those spreading misinformation about wolves at meetings or the appropriation of Native American culture when convenient to try and circumvent biology — slowly, your rights as a trapper,...
by Editor | May 12, 2020 | Conservation, Fishing, Hunting
*This article will be published in the Summer 2020 edition of Michigan Out-of-Doors By: Charlie Booher, MUCC Policy Intern The world is in the midst of a public health emergency, but the health of the conservation community is failing, too. This is a tragedy that has...