Random search maps deer losses in Michigan forests
Michigan Conservation Department uses random sampling to estimate deer mortality across 20 million acres of northern Michigan. The method, while revealing starvation, disease and illegal kills, yields humorous quirks as areas are drawn from a hat. This spring the survey begins with an 8000 carcasses expected as weather warms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Conservation Department
Michigan Conservation Department
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
U.P
Dead Deer Special Season Areas Reviewed by Conservation Dept
The Conservation Department will begin dead deer searches in two any deer areas once conditions permit. Random checks aim to compare crippling losses in Unit 2 Lake Newaygo county area with a November 15 30 season and Unit 3 parts of Clare Gladwin Missaukee Roscommon counties with a December 12 season.
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Conservation Department
Lake Newaygo County
Clare
Gladwin
Missaukee
Roscommon
Bears emerge from hibernation in Michigan forests with cubs
Professor Warren Chase explains that mother bears wake with newborn cubs in early spring, facing scarce food sources as they forage for berries and insects. He notes bears are not sociable and that Michigan now treats bears as game animals to control populations amid forested, low-population areas. The piece ends with a brief note on the fearless weasel.
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Michigan
Warren Chase
Department of Wildlife Management
University of Michigan
Chase
Upper Peninsula
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