Policy

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In a year when deer issues threaten to divide the hunting community, the Department of Natural Resources just did something that ought to unite it, and not for a good reason. The Michigan DNR – the agency that you fund with your hunting, fishing and trapping license dollars – just gave the City of Ann…

LANSING – Conservation groups are applauding the legislative passage of Senate Bill 1187, which will restore Michigan’s vital natural resources management process for making fish and wildlife conservation decisions with sound science. After passing the state Senate 27-10 last week, last night the House of Representatives passed it by a vote of 69-39, with support…

Yesterday when I got in my car to drive to work, Jason Aldean’s “Crazy Town,” was playing on the radio. I thought it was about Nashville, but every lame duck session I think it’s about Lansing, too. Yesterday, our prospects for advancing our members’ hunting, fishing, trapping and conservation priorities were made a little more…

Michigan United Conservation Clubs members passed a resolution this summer to increase opportunity and flexibility for turkey hunters to use their licenses. On Thursday, the Natural Resources Commission will consider updates to turkey regulations for action.   The Natural Resources Commission will consider a proposed order to amend the Spring Turkey regulations. In the private land…

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The Blue Ribbon Advisory Group on Southern Michigan State Game Areas released its management recommendations today. The panel, co-chaired by 2016 Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ Conservationist of the Year Bill Demmer and MUCC Executive Director Dan Eichinger, was created in May 2015. The recommendations include five operation recommendations, five recruitment, retention and reactivation recommendations, and…

Nearly 20 years ago, MUCC members recognized the need for regulations and oversight of the (at the time) budding commercial guiding industry in Michigan through our policy resolution process. On September 21, we were pleased to support a package of legislative bills, Senate Bills 1070-1072, that would for the first time provide a consistent regulatory…

As of the last NRC meeting on July 14th, chumming regulation in Michigan have been updated to prohibit chumming with organic material on types 1, 2, 3, and 4, streams. The NRC and DNR received public comments for a 3-month period and the NRC received comments at fourteen meetings before coming to this conclusion. Earlier…