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(Provided by Indiana DNR)
Registration for the second season of DNRs GiveIN Game program starts Sept. 1.
GiveIN Game is a free donation program for people who would like venison to feed their families. The program allows hunters who have extra venison and people who want venison to connect on their own time and set up an exchange. Selling, bartering or trading for venison is prohibited.
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(Provided by St. Joseph County Parks)
St. Joseph County Parks will continue the deer management program at Spicer Lake Nature Preserve in New Carlisle this November.
Spicer Lake consists of 320 acres, much of which is wetland. The uniqueness of the kettle hole lake habitat harbors a number of threatened plant and animal species. Evie Kirkwood, County Parks Director, says that park staff has noted a decrease in key indicator plant species such as trillium and sweet cicely correlating to an increase in the white-tailed deer population.
The deer management hunt will take place on November 17 and 18, 2012. To emphasize deer population reduction, the management program will be an antlerless hunt.
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Bucky Hauser is the Mossy Oak Whitetail Regional Pro Staff Manager for the states of Michigan, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
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Deer season is still two months away yet the first tree stand injury has been reported in Michiana by Indiana Conservation Officers.
According to a DNR press release, Stephen E Guzak, was attempting to hang his tree stand near Plymouth, Ind. for the upcoming deer season when he fell from the tree approximately 20 feet to the ground. Officials say he was not using any protective gear such as a climbing harness or safety line.
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(Editors note: Michiana isnt the only Michigan area impacted by EHD. Heres an announcement the DNR released that indicates it has received over 900 dead deer statewide)
(Provided by Michigan DNR)
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan State University Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health recently confirmed and announced the death of deer in Ionia and Branch counties was due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD).
As of Wednesday, the two organizations have confirmed EHD in six additional counties: Barry, Calhoun, Cass, Clinton, Eaton and Montcalm. There has been a nationwide increase of EHD outbreaks due to the extended hot and dry conditions.