LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About 675,000 hunters are expected to
scour woods and rural areas across the state over the 16-day firearm
deer season.
The state Department of Natural Resources expects
Tuesday’s opening day to feature the same number of deer in the bottom
half of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula as last year.
The Detroit Free
Press reports upward of 300,000 of Michigan’s 1.6 million deer will be
taken this season, but fewer hunters could take part the first day
because it begins on a Tuesday and not the weekend.
Firearm deer season started on a Monday in 2010.
The
DNR reported in its annual forecast last month that the deer population
appeared excessive on some private lands in the northern Lower
Peninsula, while numbers were rising slowly in some publicly owned
areas.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About 675,000 hunters are expected to
scour woods and rural areas across the state over the 16-day firearm
deer season.
The state Department of Natural Resources expects
Tuesday’s opening day to feature the same number of deer in the bottom
half of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula as last year.
The Detroit Free
Press reports upward of 300,000 of Michigan’s 1.6 million deer will be
taken this season, but fewer hunters could take part the first day
because it begins on a Tuesday and not the weekend.
Firearm deer season started on a Monday in 2010.
The
DNR reported in its annual forecast last month that the deer population
appeared excessive on some private lands in the northern Lower
Peninsula, while numbers were rising slowly in some publicly owned
areas.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.