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Results of the annual mail survey for opinions of deer hunters on various subjects.
Report on the results of two special seasons for the taking of any deer (male or female, any age) in 1961 to help control damage by deer to fruit trees.
Report using the results of a bear kill postcard survey of deer hunters, bear hunter survey, field checks, and a tally of bears transported across the Straits to estimate bear kill between 1953 and 1958.
Results of the postcard surveys for archery and camp deer kill in the 1962 season.
Estimated results of the 1961 regular deer season, with comparative data of previous years.
In 1951, comprehensive counts of singing Kirtland's Warbler males were initiated - a project generally recognized as the first such undertaking for any songbird. Since that time, fourteen more censuses have been carried out; the first three at ten-year intervals and since 1971, annually. The 1983 surveys was the eighth organized by the Surveys and Statistics Section of the Wildlife Division. In 1983, a total of 215 singing males were found, all in Michigan. Only one was found outside of the traditional breeding range. Annual counts in Michigan from 1971 through 1982 averaged 206 males. The 215 found in 1983 is the ninth highest in the thirteen years of consecutive censuses.
Report comparing two different systems - the Wisconsin and New York - of estimating deer harvest with the system used ing Michigan.
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were legal game in 1980 during several types of seasons. The total deer harvest by all hunters in 1980 (165,490) was the second highest on record, surpassed only by 1978 (171,240). During the regular season. the largest number of hunters in history, 727,210, bagged the largest number of bucks ever - 108,250. Statewide, same 108,960 hunter's choice permit holders harvested 28,210 antlerless deer, slightly more than the 27,040 taken in 1979. While the number of hunters (26,080) and bucks killed (920) were down slightly compared to 1979, the 1980 season was still second best of the six seasons held to date. For the first time since 1971, the number of archers was less than the previous year (216,190 to 204,550). The deer harvest (28,110) however, was an all-time record, nearly 10 percent above the 1979 figure. The camp permit was eliminated by Legislative action in 1980.
1980 marked the twelfth complete inventory of the singing male Kirtland's warblers (Dendroica kirtlandii), and the tenth annual census of the species. This report covers the results of that census.
Stastitical report on the results of the 1959 dead deer survey, complementing Report Nr. 2224.
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were legal game in 1981 during several types of seasons. The total legal deer harvest by all hunters, 208,720, was the highest on record, easily breaking the old record set in 1978 (171,240). During the regular season. while hunter numbers totaled 734,040, an increase of less than one percent from 1980, the buck harvest increased some 14 percent to 123,690. Both were the highest ever. Statewide, some 160,730 hunter's choice permit holders harvested 49,430 antlerless deer, the most since 1965 and 75 percent more than the 28,210 taken in 1980. After a slight dip in 1980, the number of muzzle loader hunters rebounded to a new high in 1981 of 30,320. The harvest of 1,970 bucks was also a new record, easily surpassing the previous mark set in 1979 of 1,310. Both the number of bowhunters (214,750) and their harvest (33,320) were new all-time records. Note: Camp permits were eliminated by the Legislature in 1980, but restored in 1981. In 1981, 771 camps took 310 bucks.
Report combining and comparing recent deer population data collected from various sources.
This report brings together, into a single reference, a summary of the available information concerning past Michigan deer seasons through 1978. These data have been gleaned, derived, and compiled from a myriad of Wildlife Division reports and information circulars, Research and Development Division reports, Office of Survey and Statistical Services reports, biennial reports, proceedings of the Public Domain Commission, the Michigan Sportsman magazine, annual reports of the Game, Fish, and Forestry Warden, the Public Acts of Michigan, Commission Proceedings of the Department of Natural Resources (formerly Department of Conservation), correspondence files, and unpublished reports. Whenever possible, the original data were examined to ensure that estimating procedures were applied correctly. The report covers definitions and information about seasons and regulations, areas open to hunting, licenses, harvest and hunter number estimate methodology, hunting accidents. It also includes tables of data covering regulations (including legislation, license sales, license fees), season numbers (including harvests, hunter numbers, buck kills, quotas, permit numbers, bow and arrow hunter/harvest numbers) and hunting accidents.
Report covering deer biological data for 1959-1960, a supplement to similar data from previous years found in reports 2135, 2192 and 2235.
The first census was organized by Harold Mayfield in 1951, probably the first complete survey ever carried out for any songbird. Originally, similar inventories were to be conducted at ten-year intervals. While counts were made in 1961 and 1971 as planned, the results of the 1971 census were so low that an ad hoc group of concerned individuals instituted annual censuses. Thus, including 1984, we have had an unbroken string of 14 consecutive years of census data. In 1984, a total of 215 singing males were found, all in Michigan. None were outside the traditional breeding range in northeastern Lower Michigan. Annual counts in Michigan from 1971 through 1983 averaged 206 males. Although we have been disappointed that the species has not increased dramatically since the Recovery Team instituted intensive management practices in the early 1970s, the number of males has been above the average for seven of the past eight years.
Report on the results of the regular deer seasons 1954-1959, estimated based on mail surveys from those years.
Resutls of a field survey conducted during the 1960 deer season to secure information on the frequency that special season permit holders took antlerless der outside their permit areas.
Results on the twenty-seventh consecutive year of a mail survey asking for opinions of deer hunters on various subjects. A continuing thread through all surveys has been one or more questions asking opinions about antlerless deer hunting.
Estimates of the harvest of furbearers by trappers as determined by mail surveys for 1957-1959.
Results on the twenty-sixth consecutive year of a mail survey asking for opinions of deer hunters on various subjects. A continuing thread through all surveys has been one or more questions asking opinions about antlerless deer hunting.
Report on an attempt to gain some insight into the problem of bias in hunter reports carried out in 1952, 1958 and 1959.
Results and findings of the annual mail survey for opinions of deer hunters on various subjects.
Results on the twenty-eighth consecutive year of a mail survey asking for opinions of deer hunters on various subjects. A continuing thread through all surveys has been one or more questions asking opinions about antlerless deer hunting.
Preliminary report on the results and conditions of the 1963 deer season.
Report comparing results of the annual mail survey of deer hunters question regarding bears killed, 1953-1959.
