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The whitetail's pre-rut is characterized by increased activity, intense socialization, mixing of the sexes, sparring among bucks and the early stages of signposting. These interactions involve highly ritualistic and stereotyped [...]

The fact that the value of voluntary antler point restriction (VAPR) is mostly being ignored in discussions about deer management in some states is part of the reason for confusion [...]

Did you know that some white-tailed does and their adult daughters sometimes babysit each other's fawns? I didn't either until I started walking with a family of free ranging deer [...]

Ninety-one-year-old Don Boulanger from Crystal Falls, Michigan, has bagged 105 whitetails during his long deer hunting career--and he hopes to add more to his total before he's done. He underwent [...]

My efforts to video tape the first year in the life of an albino buck abruptly ended on June 18, 2017, when the white deer was killed by an unknown [...]

Michigan's Steve Campbell beat the odds twice last December. First, he bagged a huge Livingston County non-typical with his crossbow. Second, he collected the outstanding deer on state land open [...]

Is Michigan's deer management program up for sale? After what just went down this summer in America's most heavily hunted state, it seems to me--and many other longtime residents--that we've [...]

RECORDS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. BUT WHEN IV IT COMES TO DEER HUNTING, MOST RECORDS ARE BROKEN BY HAPPENSTANCE RATHER THAN INTENT. THAT WAS THE CASE WITH THE LATEST [...]

The effect of fentanyl analgesia on the cardiovascular and endocrine response to cutaneous electrical stimulation in the late gestation ovine fetus is investigated. The cutaneous electrical stimulation in the fetal sheep causes an increase in heart rate and fentanyl has significant effects, which might adversely affect the fetus, on the cardiovascular and endocrine system.

Wildlife viewing can be an important and rewarding part of any camping trip, as animals and birds are regular visitors to many campgrounds. I have photographed rabbits, squirrels, deer, bears, [...]

Wildlife viewing can be an important and rewarding part of any camping trip, as animals and birds are regular visitors to many campgrounds. I have photographed rabbits, squirrels, deer, bears, […]

It happened on the last day of Michigan's firearms season, There were several inches of snow covering the ground and it was cold, with temperatures in the teens. My brother [...]

It's good idea to look behind you once in a while, particularly when stalking black bears. Just ask John Christman of Bend, Ore. While pursuing a bear during a spring […]

FOR SEVEN MONTHS last year, Michigan writer and photographer Richard P. Smith trained his lenses on a single whitetail living free in a park on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. From Smith's […]

Hunting bears is an encounter with living nightmare. Bear hunting and excitement go hand in hand. Simply seeing bear sign or hearing a bruin is exciting. If you hunt with [...]

Twas three weeks before Christmas, when young Manchester heard a pounding on his door; A bang, rattle and discombobulation, like an angry sledgehammer piercing through oak board; For fear of [...]

November 15, 2016, was a special day for 79-year-old Michigan deer hunter Harold Kleinow from Carleton besides the fact it was opening day of another firearms deer season. That's also [...]

BEAR MANAGEMENT IN MICHIGAN demonstrates why professional wildlife biologists, not voter referendums, should govern big game management. Michigan voters were forced to choose between the two in 1996 when a [...]

Pictured here is a white-tailed doe with a short tail in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Deer predators such as coyotes and wolves are common in the region. This doe's tail was [...]

Although the Alger County, Michigan, Sheriff's Department acquired a hovercraft to aid in the rescue of humans who sometimes fall victim to thin ice conditions in and around Munising Bay [...]

Michigan DNR deer specialist Chad Stewart was puzzled by a comparison of the level of satisfaction of deer hunters on a statewide basis where MAPR isn't in effect with DMUs [...]

THE MICHIGAN STATE RECORD for bears by bow and arrow was finally broken during the fall of 1999 after 11 years. But it didn't just happen once. At least two [...]

When news spread late last fall that a potential world-record 8-pointer had been poached in southeastern Minnesota, most hunters registered some level of disappointment, but for at least three rural [...]

Tom Anderman from Mt. Pleasant, Mich., spent his Upper Peninsula bear hunt sweltering over a bait site on unseasonably warm September afternoons and listening to coyotes howl in the distance. [...]

On Thanksgiving morning during the 2002 Michigan firearms season, Larry Ridley of Lansing bagged what he thought was a trophy buck while hunting in Van Buren County. In reality, Larry's [...]

MOST NOVICE BEAR HUNTERS overestimate the size of bears and then suffer major ground shrinkage when the '500-pounder' they shot turns into a 150-pounder on the ground. That wasn't a [...]

After reading the feature 'Attacked!' [March 2014], I thought I'd provide some input on how to deal with black bear attacks. There's nothing wrong with carrying pepper spray or a [...]

Since its origins in the early 1970s, the municipal bond insurance industry has built an enviable record with investors, with the municipal governments and agencies they insure, and - as [...]

Once again, Scott Bestul is 100 percent on the money about food plots vs. bait (Whitetails). It sounds as though he has hunted in Michigan's U.P. and has run into [...]

The expansive bush country of Saskatchewan is renowned as a great place to bag your best whitetail. It's also one of the few places a whitetail hunter can mistakenly pass [...]

AS HARD AS NORTH AMERICAN hunters try to bag the next world-record whitetail, such a beast is nearly as likely to be found dead in the woods or end up [...]

Fourteen-year-old Meghan Westcott, of Lac La Belle, Mich., bagged an unusual buck on opening day of the 2009 firearms season while hunting with her father, Troy. The Upper Peninsula buck, [...]

Lake Michigan's St. Martin Island vaulted into the imagination of deer hunters across the country when photos taken there on Nov. 19, 2009, hit the Internet. The photos--several taken by [...]

A whitetail fawn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula made a fatal mistake when it jumped the 4-foot fence around a pig pen on a Menominee County farm October 4. It was [...]

Dan Kirschner of Powers, Mich., witnessed a wolf catch and kill a fawn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on June 7, 2009. While such events aren't uncommon, they are rarely witnessed. [...]

According to state records keeper Commemorative Bucks of Michigan (CBM), Aaron Davis of Holland, Michigan, killed a new Michigan state record archery nontypical whitetail in Hillsdale County on November 14, [...]

There's been a change in the permit requirements for hunters from the United States who want to bring hides and meat from black bears they bag in Canada back home [...]