Dates for upcoming 2025-26 deer hunting seasons in Michigan: Extended Archery: Through Jan. 31, 2026, for select counties: ...

Michigan may allow hunters to use a mobile app to show they are authorized to kill certain animals. Currently, hunters need a ...

Deer baiting has been banned across the Lower Peninsula since 2019, in response to communicable disease outbreaks spreading ...

Firearm deer season in Michigan has come to a close and, while a final few hunters may be dragging their feet to report their ...

Hunters in Michigan have harvested more than 100,000 deer since the start of the regular firearm deer season, the Department of Natural Resources said on its website Monday. The Michigan DNR's ...

Michigan’s white-tailed deer harvest total for the 2025 regular firearm deer season was 128,966. That includes 47,880 anterless deer and 81,096 with antlers. Here are the top 10 counties bringing home ...

Michigan's firearm deer hunters are preparing for the first season opener to fall on a Saturday in 11 years. Firearm season ...

It's a cool, crisp Michigan morning. The sun just arrived, greeting the woods and wilds with warmth and light. But Mike Ketelaar and his father settled in to their sacred spots in Kent or Ionia ...

Over the past few decades, Michigan has seen a steep drop in the number of deer hunters. From around 1995 to 2023, the state reportedly lost about 200,000 hunters, roughly a 30 percent decline. This ...

LANSING — Michigan firearm deer hunters will take to the field Friday morning in the hope of bagging a trophy buck, or enough venison to fill their freezer this winter. Firearm season is the fifth ...