Category: Wildlife

Goldfinch

DNR advises leaving wildlife in the wild

It happens every spring. Someone finds an “abandoned” fawn and takes it upon themselves to “rescue” it.
The Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Division staff has a word of advice: Don’t.
“When young fawns are born, they’re not very mobile and don’t appear to have much scent to them so their best defense is to just stay still, on their own, apart from their mother,” explained Brent Rudolph, the deer and elk program leader for the DNR. “Predators can’t track them down by following mom around, so she stays away and the fawns stay alone – that’s their best defense during their first few days of life.” Read more

Wildlife

Michigan’s Right to Hunt

We have one chance to defend the right to hunt, fish and trap from out-of-state anti-hunters for good.

Scientific Wildlife Management legislation will make sure that game management decisions are made by sound science, not ballot-box biology. If we don’t take advantage of this opportunity now, they’ll come back to our state again and again to attack your rights to hunt, fish and trap, one by one.
Call your state representative right now and tell him or her to support House Bills 4552 & 4553 and Senate Bills 288 & 289!
Hundreds of hunters, anglers and trappers rallied at Camo at the Capitol and met with legislators. Their message to us? They need to hear from you! It only takes a minute, but it will defend your rights for a lifetime – Please call now!
If you don’t know your representative, click here to find out and call. Thank you!
Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

Eight Men From Colorado, Michigan And Indiana Sentenced For Wildlife Violations

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – A joint investigation by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has concluded with the convictions and sentencing of eight men for their roles in illegal hunts that took place in the King Mountain area of southern Routt County in Colorado.

Ole Thorson, 35, of Prescott Mich., entered his guilty plea on March 28, bringing the two-and-a-half year joint investigation and prosecution to an end. His brother, Travis Thorson, 40, and their father, 64-year-old Jerome Thorson, all from Prescott, had previously pleaded guilty. Read more

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Day 6 PlotWatcher Pro Captures All the Action

By Glen Wunderlich

With spring turkey season upon us, every hunter would like to be able to pattern the birds’ activity before deciding on an ambush site.  Scouting is a great way to begin, but finding time to hide and watch is difficult for anyone attempting to make a living.  That’s where assistance from the Day 6 PlotWatcher Pro camera comes in.

This compact trail camera is designed to perform surveillance work during daylight hours and is just the ticket to scout in absentia.  And, so far, I like what I’ve seen.

Imagine watching an entire field from sunrise to sunset through a review process that takes mere minutes.  Time is money and this camera pays dividends after the one-time retail price of approximately $250 is paid plus the cost of an SD memory card of $15 to $30 and eight AA batteries.

The PlotWatcher is a time-lapse camera Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

QDMA Helps Establish Three Wildlife Management Cooperatives

The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) recently helped establish three wildlife management cooperatives that unite public and private hunting lands for better deer habitat and hunting thanks in part to a $50,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). The three cooperatives – two in Oklahoma and one in Michigan – are built on and around National Wildlife Refuges and encompass nearly 65,000 acres of public and private hunting land.

 

Wildlife management cooperatives (WMC) are groups of neighboring landowners or property lessees working together to improve wildlife and/or habitat management programs. The grant to establish the three new WMCs was announced last September, and as of late March, all three Cooperatives have now been launched:

 

·  The Shiawassee Flats QDM Cooperative, which surrounds the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Michigan, was formed on March 12 and includes 25 individual landowners and 12,039 acres.

·  The Washita River Deer Management Association, which surrounds Washita River NWR in Oklahoma, was formed on March 26 and includes 12 individual landowners and 40,311 acres.

·  The Deep Fork Deer Management Association, which surrounds Deep Fork NWR in Oklahoma, was formed on March 28 and includes 15 individual landowners and 12,484 acres. Read more

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PETA to Acquire Drones to Stalk Hunters

Norfolk, Va. — PETA will soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun down deer and doves. The group is shopping for one or more drone aircraft with which to monitor those who are out in the woods with death on their minds. PETA aims to collect video footage of any illegal activity, including drinking while in the possession of a firearm, a common complaint from those who live near wooded areas; maiming animals and failing to pursue them so that they die slowly and painfully; and using spotlights, feed lures, and other hunting tricks that are illegal in some areas but remain common practices among hunters. PETA currently has its sights on Australia-based Aerobot and its state-of-the-art remote-controlled CineStar Octocopter. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

Stop the Antis in Michigan

The Scientific Wildlife Management package (Senate Bills 288 & 289 and House Bills 4552 & 4553) will:

·         Establish a right to hunt, fish and trap in state law.
·         Allow the Natural Resources Commission to designate game species and issue fisheries orders.
·         Provide $1 million in conservation funding for fish and game management and research.
·         Provide free licenses to active-duty members of the military.

The anti-hunters, led by the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States, are attacking this legislation because it means they won’t be able buy their way onto Michigan’s ballot to take away any more hunting rights. They’re even telling their members that it will lead to “dog, cat and horse” hunting, just as they lied about the wolf management law by telling people it would lead to “aerial gunning from helicopters.” And they’re repeating these lies to your legislators.

In 1996, hunters, anglers and trappers banded together and passed Proposal G to manage wildlife using sound science and defeat the anti-hunters’ attempt to limit bear hunting rights. In 2006, we were silent and the anti’s took away our rights to hunt doves. Now they’re back, like a wolf that’s lost its fear of humans, to attack your hunting rights one by one. What happens now is up to you.
Please call your state representative and state senator and tell them you support the Scientific Wildlife Management package. Don’t let the anti-hunters be the only ones your legislators hear from!

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife
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