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Michigans DNR transition to a new vendor will have some short-term impacts to customers making campground reservations beginning next month.
Reservations for campsites typically have a six-month window for advance booking. However, as the transition date approaches, this window will shrink. Campsite reservations can be made in the current system, either online or through the call center, for stays through the end of October 2013. Reservations in the new system will be accepted beginning November 2013.
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Michiganders have one chance to defend the right to hunt, fish and trap from out-of-state anti-hunters for good.
Scientific Wildlife Management legislation before the state senate will make sure that game management decisions are made by sound science, not ballot-box biology. If sportsmen don't take advantage of this opportunity, anti groups will come back to our state again and again to attack those rights to hunt, fish and trap.
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The Michigan DNR announced the daily limit for walleyes in Michigan's waters of Lake Erie will remain at six through April 30, 2014.
In 2011 Michigan adopted a process for setting creel limit regulations that allows the DNR to use real-time population data instead of using year-old survey results. This process parallels one adopted by Ohio in 2010.
"This regulations process is critical to helping us manage walleyes in Lake Erie in a timely manner," said DNR Fisheries Divisions Lake Erie Basin Coordinator Todd Kalish. "In order to do that, we have to set regulations in March instead of the previous autumn."
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A Galesburg man has been arrested and charged in the 8th District Court of Kalamazoo County with eight misdemeanor counts relating to the illegal taking of two deer and two turkeys.
During an investigation, a Michigan DNR conservation officer found that Justin Shane-B Neel of Galesburg, formerly of Vicksburg, had illegally killed a deer without a license during the 2012 Michigan firearm deer season. He pled guilty in the 8th District Court of Kalamazoo County, and was convicted of taking the deer without a license. Neel was sentenced and ordered to pay $1,000 in restitution to the states Fish and Game Fund, along with associated court fines/costs. His hunting privileges were also suspended for three years.
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The Michigan DNR will collect eggs from Great Lakes muskellunge in the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair to be raised at its Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery.
The practice of collecting Great Lakes muskellunge eggs, instead of northern muskellunge eggs, began in 2011 in an effort to raise a type of muskellunge that is native to more of Michigans waters. In 2012, 1.1 million eggs were collected from the Detroit River and produced more than 28,000 fall fingerlings for 18 inland lakes in Michigan, two of which will serve as broodstock lakes for egg collections in the future. An additional 3,200 4-inch fish were transferred to Wisconsin, destined for Green Bay, through a cooperative interstate arrangement.