Deer baiting has been banned across the Lower Peninsula since 2019, in response to communicable disease outbreaks spreading ...

Michigan DNR officials are asking the public to help shape the future of this newly acquired wilderness paradise.

Firearm deer season in Michigan has come to a close and, while a final few hunters may be dragging their feet to report their ...

Dates for upcoming 2025-26 deer hunting seasons in Michigan: Extended Archery: Through Jan. 31, 2026, for select counties: ...

Michigan’s white-tailed deer harvest total for the 2025 regular firearm deer season was 128,966. That includes 47,880 ...

The DNR sold slightly more tags to slightly fewer individuals in 2025 compared to 2024. The weather also played a factor in ...

OTTAWA LAKE — If you are headed up north to bag a buck this fall, you might want to reconsider. While attending a deer camp in northern Michigan might be part of the lore and tradition of hunting, it ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is set to vote on a new list of deer hunting regulations as locals express concerns about the rising deer population. The proposals reportedly ...

Over the past few decades, Michigan has seen a steep drop in the number of deer hunters. From around 1995 to 2023, the state reportedly lost about 200,000 hunters, roughly a 30 percent decline. This ...

Hunting, and to a lesser extent fishing, are on the decline in Michigan — with a particularly alarming drop in hunting that's only going to get steeper, as the baby boomers who have driven the sport ...

An avid archer in her early 60s, Kathryn Lynch Underwood had never aimed at a live target and had zero interest in ever doing so. She didn’t have any plans to buy a hunting license either. But that ...