Michigan's deer season is something that gets a lot of media attention throughout the state this time of year, but even the folks in other states are sitting up and taking note--like those guys from Toledo (which would have been part of Michigan's deer season if we wouldn't have lost that pesky war in 1836, which resulted in the good ol' U.P. being in Michigan instead of Wisconsin).
Excerpt: Michigan's 86th modern firearms deer season opens Monday , and you can bet the farm that camps from Ironwood in the far western upper peninsula to Gaylord in the heart of the northern lower are abuzz with last-minute activity.
About 615,000 individuals are expected to participate in the season, which runs through Nov. 30 and which is book-ended by archery deer season.
Brent Rudolph, the state deer specialist, said the hunter estimate is down about 15,000 from a year ago, possibly in response to slight declines in deer numbers in traditional northern haunts. Still, the deer-hunting army is huge, and it spends tens of millions of dollars in a state where the economy can use all the help it can get.
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Source: Toledo Blade
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