Gaylord DNR meeting?

[HunterHads]

Do any of you have any info on this? I would like to go but dont know when or where it is at.

[buckslayerII]

It's Feb 2nd, 7:30 pm at the Northland Sportsman's Club.

[MI newguy]

I looked it up in the phone book it's on old alba rd? No address. I coming off of I-75, how do I get there from I-75 South. Would like to attend!

Thanks

[buckslayerII]

Found this through Google.

South of gaylord at I-75 at old 27 , go south on old 27 and then west on North Otsego Lake rd. about 1 - 1/4 miles to Alba Rd. Club sign is on that corner

[Hamilton Reef]

Meetings focus on deer herd

http://www.record-eagle.com/2006/jan/31deer.htm

GAYLORD - How many deer should roam the woods of northern Michigan is the question.
A lot of people think they have the answer.
The state Department of Natural Resources is holding a series of public meetings around the state to discuss deer management goals, answer questions and collect input from citizens. The invitation has drawn wide attention among hunters who've attended the gatherings by the hundreds.
"The sentiment, at least in the northern part of the state, is that people would like to see higher numbers of deer," said Glen Matthews, DNR wildlife management unit supervisor in Gaylord.
Johannesburg hunter Art Smith, secretary of the Northland Sportsmen's Club in Gaylord, said many people just want to know how DNR officials decide what the deer population should be and how they go about achieving their goals.
Since the closest DNR deer population meetings were in Higgins Lake and Alpena, Smith said sportsmen's club members invited state officials to have another at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at their facility on Old Alba Road, off West Otsego Lake Drive in Gaylord.
Anyone with questions about the Gaylord meeting may call (989) 732-7160.

[MI newguy]

Well I wish, I had some better news about the Gaylord meeting. The meeting at the Northland Sportsman's Club was quite a disappointment, to say the least. With 100 people showing up, and 20 of them there for the monthly meeting.

The meeting started out with roll call, and then the president informed everyone that these meetings can get pretty heated. No swearing, and if anyone didn't like anything that was being said, you should have attended a different meeting held earlier. This is an information meeting only!

The meeting was started with a slide show with stats and such. Then a few questions were allowed to be asked. One was, if the DNR judges the size of the deer herd, by the number of deer killed. They gave an example of the number of hunters from 1971 - 2006. Showing the increase in deer harvested, showing we have more deer. My question was if in 1971 we had 200000 hunters in the woods, how they can determine we have more deer now. Just because the kill numbers were higher. We added another 400000 hunters, and have more bow hunters, youth hunters, muzzleloader hunters and rifle hunters.

They defused any question thrown their way. Another question I had was what the DNR doing with the $1.50 off each tag is purchased. He answered planting food plots on state land, and clear cutting lands to make better habitat. I asked, how that is using the funds, if the state is making money off the sale of the timber being cut. He replied, sometimes they have lay down seed after they are done!

I honestly new better, not to go to this circus act. I guess, I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. Lesson learned for this lad! Politics at it's best once again.

I will say this, I feel the employees of the DNR are doing the best they can with the resources available. And trying, the best they can, with what they have to work with.

[HunterHads]

MI newguy I think you were sitting at the end of my row. I was the teen a few seats down. I felt about the same way you did. they avoided all of the good questions and did not care what we had to say. My dad and I were discussing what you said about the deer numbers and hunters on the way home and think you were right on. I should have asked him if he liked his work because in a few years when I graduate with a degree in wildlife biology I am going to come for his job.:evil: Oh well the next day we went to look for new property on the east side of the state there were deer over there and LOTS OF THEM. Think we may have found us some new property.:D

[MI newguy]

Yea, that was me. To bad we didn't know each of us was going. Could of introduced myself. Anyway, keep getting good grades in school, and go after your dream, a wildlife biologist. Good luck in what ever you choose.

I honestly new better, not to go to this circus act. I guess, I wanted to give them the benefit of doubt. Lesson learned for this lad! Politics at it's best once again.

I will say this, I feel the employees of the DNR are doing the best they can with the resources available. And trying, the best they can, with what they have to work with. But hey it's winter not to many activities going on.

I can guarantee you, you will never see me at another one of those meetings. Remember how they started it out. With roll call, and then the president informed everyone that these meetings can get pretty heated. No swearing, and if anyone didn't like anything that was being said, you should have attended a different meeting held earlier. This is an information meeting only!

[Whit1]

"Northland Sportsmen's Club in Gaylord.....Since the closest DNR deer population meetings were in Higgins Lake and Alpena, Smith said sportsmen's club members invited state officials to have another at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at their facility.............."


This is your clue! The Northland Sportsen's Club in Gaylord invited the DNR reps. It was the club's meeting and they set the ground rules. It was the club's meeting.

I attended the deer population goals in Cadillac (There's a long thread about it in here on the back pages). The meeting was very well attended and many questions were asked. While many of them were not immediately answered, some were, and hunters got to voice their feelings about the management of the deer herd in the NW Region.

For the most part the guys and gals who talked were resonable in their comments, but their tone and manner unquestionablly let the DNR personel know that they (the hunters) were not happy with the seasons just past. There was no doubt as to their thoughts.

[Carl8orbtr]

I had a customer today tell me he went to the Lansing Deer show, and he talked with a DNR biologist there. He was complaining to the DNR guy about deer numbers, and the DNR guy told him that "He was the only one complaining, no one else had ever complained".
I told my customer about this web site and how it was FULL of people unhappy and complaining about their deer management and about all the DNR deer meetings that you guys tell me about. He wished I was there to help smack the rose colored glasses off his face.:cool:
Point being, the DNR is even denying we are complaining. I don't know about you guys but I write complaint letters, atleast one every two weeks, to the commision and the Dadgum DNR.:dizzy:

[MI newguy]

Sorta like cougars and wolves. Now they have a study on the wolves:confused:

[Whit1]

Sorta like cougars and wolves. Now they have a study on the wolves:confused:


Let's keep this thread "on topic" and not turn it into another cougar and wolf thing!!!!!!