deer hunting

Last year, multiple lawsuits alleged physical and sexual abuse at a Missouri mental health facility. Around the same time, Grand Traverse County kids were sent there for treatment.

The Natural Resources Commission is implementing a one-buck rule for hunters in the Lower Peninsula, effective March 1, 2027.

If successful in the state Senate, the bill would overturn a 2018 baiting ban intended to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease.

In 1998, a hunter named Mitch Rompola claimed he’d shot the biggest whitetail in North America. It was all over the news, and people waited in anticipation for it to be entered in the record books. But then Mitch just went silent. And instead of becoming a famous hunter, he became an infamous one.

Fewer hunters are heading to deer camp, and more Michiganders are affected by the annoyances — and dangers — of a bigger herd. The Natural Resources Commission votes on new regulations Thursday. Will it help?

It’s a dry spring – 1984 in Wisconsin – and all these suspicious fires are popping up. A conservation warden named Dave is pretty sure it’s arson, but he can’t catch a break. So, he and a pilot decide to get creative.

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.

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.

Fewer people are deer hunting in Michigan. And even if you're not a hunter, you should take notice, say experts.

The number of hunters in Michigan is declining. But the consequences of that decline affect more than just the hunting community.