How wild is the Tahquamnon?

An Assessment Report of the Tahquamenon River The Tahquamenon River watershed is very natural, with a landscape mixture of upland and lowland conifers and hardwoods, wetlands and marshes. Designated wetlands (actual or potential) make up roughly half of this...

Michigan’s Firearm Deer Forecast – 2008

Getting a bead on the Season What to expect…From all indications the 2008 deer harvest may well be one to remember! Why? First and foremost, too many whitetails exist to the south and that herd must be appreciably thinned; second, northern lower Michigan held a...

Archery Forecast – 2008

It all started in 1936… Looking Back: Fred Bear was instrumental in promoting the first special bowhunting season in Michigan during 1936. Two years later, the Michigan Conservation Department officials agreed that archers were doing no damage to the deer herd,...