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Electric Hunting Bikes

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Some of you may remember an article I wrote in the early 2000's about utilizing mountain bikes as a tool for hunting. While the bikes were a great tool for eliminating [...]

Jeff Sturgis and “Diego”

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Jeff has been a frequent poster here in our habitat forums for many years. He is also an expert at scouting, targeting, and harvesting mature bucks and does so almost every [...]

Making a Pine Licking Branch

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

This story comes to us courtesy of Just Hunt at OhioSportsman.com. Each year, the second weekend in October, I hang White Pine branches in three strategic locations on [...]

Michigan Archery Opener Saturday

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

With the regular archery season opener landing on a Saturday, and decent weather predicted, Michigan archers will have a great opportunity to hit the woods. Please read [...]

CWD Deer, photo by Dr. Terry Kreeger, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Chronic Wasting Disease, which is also referred to as CWD, is bad news in the deer community. CWD affects all members of the cervid family and has been making appearances in Michigan deer, the fourth of which was killed less than a month ago. [...]

Michigan Deer Season Dates

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

This weekend has marked the beginning of the deer season excitement in Michigan. Though there are many other portions of deer season yet to open, things got underway on the [...]

Michigan confirms CWD in second free-ranging white-tailed deer

July 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Michigan departments of Natural Resources (DNR) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) have confirmed a second free-ranging deer in Meridian Township (Ingham [...]

DNR confirms first chronic wasting diseased deer in state, kicks in containment plan

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Image via Michigan Departments of Natural Resources The Michigan Departments of Natural Resources along with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) last [...]

Humane Society lobbies to sterilize deer in Ann Arbor

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Image via MI DNR With whitetail numbers continuing to rise and the city contemplating bringing in hired sharpshooters at a cost of some $30,000, members of the local [...]

It’s that time of year: What to do with orphaned fawns

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

White tail deer, such as those found in abundance across all of Michigan, rut in the fall and winter which leads to thousands of cute little baby deer being born from late [...]