Michigan's DNR releases the 2025-26 hunting season, featuring spring turkey, elk, deer, bear and other small game. Elk hunting season begins in late August, though the application process begins ...

For Michigan hunters, the state recently began accepting applications for elk and bear hunting licenses. As seasons for big and small game unfold, Michigan's Department of Natural Resources ...

Zone 1: Oct. 10-31 (See Hunting Regulations Summary for map of open portions). Zone 2 and 3: ... The easiest way to report a harvest is by downloading the Michigan DNR Hunt Fish app.

Zone 3 of pheasant hunting will also be open for hunting until Jan. 1. According to the Michigan DNR deer hunting report , during the first firearm season over 136,000 deer were harvested .

Michigan’s open coyote hunting season used to ... DNR also noted that centerfire firearms .269-caliber or smaller can now be used at night in the Limited Firearm Deer Zone (southern portion of ...

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission met in Roscommon earlier this month and approved the deer regulations, which will be in effect for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 hunting seasons.

The spring turkey application period is Jan. 1 - Feb. 1. You can buy an application for $5 online at eLicense, over the counter or in the DNR Hunt Fish app. See the 2024 Spring Turkey Hunting ...

Eastern central part of the U.P. (DMU 351, consisting of DMUs 017, 021, 117, 149, 249 and 349): closed to antlerless hunting with a universal antlerless deer license in 2024.

White tail deer, late fall, early winter. The 2023 Michigan archery deer hunting season is underway, and firearm season is right around the corner.

The exact times depend upon time zones designated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. On Nov. 15, the earliest time is 6:54 a.m. in eastern Michigan. The furthest western portion of ...

Southern Michigan (Zone 3) would continue having an annual deer season, with a steadily expanding deer herd which would really explode during the 1980s and is still climbing.