As you pull into the gravel parking lot, your eyes immediately lock onto “Big Gus,” the world’s largest working chainsaw.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has released data from its annual spring survey of ruffed grouse, showing a slight decrease from 2024. Numbers, however, are still significantly up from ...

The 2025 deer season regulations summary has been published by the Michigan DNR. It is now available online, in the Michigan ...

Will Paul, an avid bowhunter, wrote a successful grant proposal to improve deer habitat in the eastern Upper Peninsula. Once ...

Hunters in Zone 1 (Upper Peninsula) “carry afield or take a deer with a muzzleloading rifle, muzzleloading shotgun or black-powder pistol, loaded with black powder or a commercially manufactured ...

Changes to antlerless harvest during the late archery season in the Upper Peninsula have also been implemented. View the 2024 Michigan Hunting Regulations Summary below: Have a question?

Upper Peninsula Most of the Upper Peninsula saw an extremely mild 2023-2024 winter, which was a welcome change from the previous two winters.

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the north shore, which has relatively poor winter cover, supports an average of only five deer per square mile.

In the western central part of the Upper Peninsula, in DMU 352 when using a universal antlerless deer license, it is required to also have an antlerless deer hunting access permit.

On Thursday, the state Natural Resources Commission approached deer management in Michigan by passing a bundle of new hunting regulations, some going into effect as soon as this fall.

The reported deer harvest in the Upper Peninsula in the 2023 firearm deer season was around 15,000 deer — a fraction of the peak of about 90,000 deer taken in the U.P. decades ago.

The northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula, meanwhile, entailed a very dense, unending old growth forest which allowed very little sunlight to penetrate through.