Michigan United Conservation Clubs is the largest statewide conservation organization in the nation. Founded in 1937, our mission is to unite citizens to conserve, protect and enhance Michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage. This mission drives everything we do as an organization.
Your membership also makes you an active participant in Michigan's conservation community. As a member of MUCC, you can propose conservation policy resolutions that form the backbone of our efforts in Lansing. By joining MUCC, you can set the direction for hunting, fishing, trapping and conservation policy for Michigan.
Help us continue to defend your rights to hunt, fish and trap in Michigan today. Your generous contribution allows us to put on our yearly summer camp for kids, restore habitat across the state, and fight anti-hunting legislation in Lansing.
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Most of the swans we see all around Michigan are not native to Michigan, which many people seem to forget since they’ve been here for 150 years. Mute swans were introduced to North America in the mid-1800’s, essentially as lawn and park ornaments—we could call them the original pink plastic flamingo, except that they move…
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Today, a group of nationally-renowned wolf scientists sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Congress urging for wolves in the western Great Lakes to be returned to state management due to their biological recovery in the region. While wolves have exceeded Endangered Species Act recovery goals since 1999, a federal judge’s…
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources suspects that a fourth free-ranging white-tailed deer may have Chronic Wasting Disease in Michigan. The news comes just days before the start of the state’s annual firearm deer season. (Stock photo from MUCC – not the actual CWD deer) The deer, a year and a half old buck, was…
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