Do not invest more money than you can afford to lose.
It’s good for the MI economy.
“Hunters are seeing more deer this year as we continue to build deer populations across much of the state”, said Steve Merchant, wildlife populations and regulations program manager.
The forecast for MI deer hunters varies by region, with fewer deer expected to be seen in the Upper Peninsula, improving deer numbers in the northern Lower Peninsula, and strong deer populations in the southern Lower Peninsula, according to the MI Department of Natural Resources 2015 report.
“I think corn harvest this year is twice what it was last year”, he said. Spokesman John Pepin says hunters should educate themselves and others about restrictions on transporting deer to the U.P.
“They are going to rut regardless of weather, but they will be moving during daylight more (with colder weather)”, said Erik Bartholomew, big game biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Helping to manage healthy herds and habitats to ensure a successful hunt has important implications for Michigan’s economy. It also contributed $12 million in state sales taxes and motor fuel taxes.
“It seems to me there are more deer this year than last year”, said VanValkenburg, who has been out hunting. This is the state’s most underused and underappreciated segment of the season.
The fact is, each year more than half of Wisconsin’s 600,000-plus deer hunters wait until after November 1 to buy their gun-season license, and about 12 percent wait until the day before the season to buy.
In three counties in mid MI, where there have been three cases of chronic wasting disease and possibly a fourth discovered just this week, the DNR has special rules.
When opening day begins, hunters usually want to enjoy the season as best they can and are not about mixing hunting and politics, at least not during the hunting hours, or not until they gather to relax at day’s end. The deer can be registered over the phone or on the Internet. A dwelling includes both permanent and temporary residences, and would include hunting cabins and camp sites. A 15 second television ad, flawless Spot, is also running on MI Out of Doors. In 2014, the Pure MI landing page received almost 80,000 views, with 62 percent of pageviews coming from outside of the state of MI. In drought conditions, deer antlers can be underdeveloped and more prone to breakage, he said. Biologists hope to go back and measure the antlers for a sub-set of antlers for each age class of the teeth that are sent in.
