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This week: Crafting new rules for deer management gets more complicated than usual. Also, what your HOA *can't* tell you to do.
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This week: I was out collecting bird calls when suddenly, I heard a deer forcefully expelling air through its nostrils. Deer snort like that when they detect possible danger. But how intentional is that sound?
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While the Lower Peninsula is struggling with too many deer, the U.P. has the opposite problem. Regulations to address that could be coming soon.
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When hunter Ben Karasch sees something move out of the corner of his eye, he assumes it’s a deer. But as Karasch gets a better look, he realizes it’s not a deer, it’s a cougar. And it’s slowly creeping towards him.
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Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in Ohio is trying out another solution: deer sterilization.
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Applications are open for the new Deer Management Initiative. The program will gather voices from across the state to try and solve ongoing issues with deer.
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The city will work with state and federal agencies to kill 20 to 40 deer after years of complaints from residents.
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An open letter from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources deer biologist Chad Stewart encouraged hunters to rethink their hunting philosophy and harvest more antlerless deer, like does and young males.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture tracked white-tailed deer for a year, and detected widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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On an early spring morning, my husband and I are paddling the Manistee River. The water is high this time of year and the air cold, but the sun feels warm on my back.