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VOLUNTEERS PART OF FULTON SGA MANAGEMENT PLAN
Last weekend, volunteers built ten new brush piles at the Fulton State Game Area. This is the third year that volunteers with MUCC’s wildlife habitat program have improved rabbit habitat in the area. It is part of Fulton SGA’s Wildlife Management plan to have volunteers build fifty brush piles over a ten-year span in areas…
Read MoreDNR RECOMMENDING COYOTE HUNTING CHANGES
The Department of Natural Resources is recommending several coyote hunting regulation changes to the Natural Resources Commission this month, including year-round hunting opportunities and implementation of a Michigan United Conservation Clubs and Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association resolution to allow the use of #3 and #4 buckshot at night for coyotes. (Photo Michigan DNR…
Read MoreIn the Field: How Deer Cooperatives Get Started
by Anna Mitterling, Wildlife Cooperative Coordinator, MUCC It all started because one guy had a QDMA sign on his property. Two guys each bought some property to build a home, raise a family, and hunt. Each acting independently of the other, yet just across the street. They had both been in communication with me about…
Read MoreNEW WILDLIFE HABITAT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES SCHEDULED
MUCC’s volunteer-based wildlife habitat program has revisited several state game areas each year to continue habitat improvement there. Volunteers have attended projects at the Gratiot-Saginaw SGA, Fulton SGA, Crane Pond SGA, Allegan SGA, and the Pigeon River Country Forest each year since the start of this program in 2013- as long as there are habitat…
Read MoreMICHIGAN OUT-OF-DOORS | MICHIGAN'S BEST IDEA
This article appears in the March/April 2016 issue of Michigan Out-of-Doors. Click here to become a member and subscribe! Forty years ago, a landmark compromise between conservationists and the oil and gas industry forged what might be “Michigan’s Best Idea,” the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund. Today, Michigan citizens in all parts of the state benefit…
Read MorePODCAST EPISODE: TRAPPING | FIELD & STREAM DEER & TURKEY EXPO PART II
We talk with Jon Southworth of the Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association and Clint Miller from River Rats Trapping Supply about trapping and common misconceptions about it.
Read MoreLEARN MORE ABOUT POSSIBLE GREAT LAKES WATER DIVERSION-MONDAY 2/29
The Great Lakes provide the foundation of our identity as a region. Supported by all eight Great Lakes states and signed into law in 2008, the Compact was created to protect the Great Lakes from large-scale diversions of water. The city of Waukesha, Wis., — located in the Mississippi River Basin — has proposed a plan…
Read MoreMI BUCK POLE : DEER AND TURKEY EXPO (PART 1)
In Part 1 of our podcast series from the Field & Stream Outdoor Life Deer & Turkey Expo, we joined the MI Buck Pole crew in their booth to talk about females in hunting, the meaning of trophy and more!
Read MoreVOLUNTEERS BUILD BRUSH PILES FOR RABBITAT
I hope everyone took advantage of the awesome weather and got outside over the weekend! Thirteen volunteers returned to the Gratiot-Saginaw State Game Area last weekend to build brush piles for rabbitat and clear shrubs and encroaching timber from a wildlife opening. Among those volunteers were Doug and Dianne Reeves who are both enjoying recent…
Read MoreMICHIGAN OUT-OF-DOORS PODCAST EPISODE 23 – AQUACULTURE AND FISH POOP
MUCC Executive Director Dan Eichinger joins the podcast to discuss why commercial net-pen aquaculture would be terrible for Great Lakes fishing and what we’re doing about it.
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