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Report detailing data obtained on fox squirrel populations at the Rose Lake Wildlife Experiment Station during a study from December 1939 to November 1940, with map.
Ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and American woodcock (Scolopax minor) are popular forest game birds that are pursued by about 103,000 Michigan hunters annually. Hunters spend an average of seven to eight days hunting grouse and woodcock each year, adding up to almost a million days of recreation in Michigan annually. The number of ruffed grouse flushed per hour by cooperators in 2003 (1.63) increased 13.2% statewide compared to flush rates from 2002 (1.44); an estimated 358,000 grouse were harvested in Michigan during 2003. The number of woodcock flushed per hour by cooperators in 2003 (1.51) increased 8.6% statewide compared to flush rates from 2002 (1.39). Approximately 43,000 hunters harvested about 139,000 woodcock while spending 301,000 days afield in 2003.
Small game license buyers were contacted after the 2002 hunting seasons to estimate the number of people hunting upland game and waterfowl, their days afield, and harvest. The survey also was used to check whether migratory bird hunters registered with the Harvest Information Program (HIP) and to determine huntersâ opinions about extending the late pheasant season in southern Michigan.
Report on the results of a mourning dove survey conducted September 1 through November 7 in both 1959 and 1960.
A random sample of bear hunters was contacted after the 2007 hunting season to determine hunter participation, hunting methods, bear harvest, and hunter satisfaction. In 2007, an estimated 8,900 hunters spent nearly 64,000 days afield and harvested about 2,181 bears; a decrease of nearly 17% from 2006. Statewide, 25% of hunters harvested a bear. Baiting was the most common hunting method used to harvest bears, although hunters using dogs had greater hunting success than hunters using bait only. Statewide, about 50% of hunters rated their hunting experience as very good or good. Most hunters (68%) approved of the preference-point system for the distribution of hunting licenses.
A survey of deer hunters was conducted following the 2007 hunting seasons to estimate hunter participation, harvest, and hunting effort. In 2007, an estimated 683,000 hunters spent 9.7 million days afield. Statewide, the number of people hunting deer decreased 1% and their hunting effort decreased 5% between 2006 and 2007. Hunters harvested nearly 484,000 deer, an increase of about 6% from the number taken in 2006. Statewide, 48% of hunters harvested a deer. About 24% of the hunters took an antlerless deer and 35% took an antlered buck. About 16% of deer hunters harvested two or more deer.
This report contains a preliminary analysis of the 1990 deer hunting season based on data collected at highway deer check stations. from field reports. from counts of deer being transported all vehicles, and from highway traffic counters. The Michigan Department of Transportation and the Mackinac Bridge Authority assisted in providing data. The winter of 1989/90 started early and ended early. Record cold temperatures and snow depths occurred in December, but record mild temperatures occurred in February and March. Had it not been for the mild temperatures in late winter, winter mortality of deer would have been even higher than the estimated loss of 98,800 deer in seven northern districts. For the first time since 1982, the number of deer in the fall population decreased. There were about 10-20% less deer in Michigan in the fall of 1990, compared to fall of 1989.
Results of game bird counts in 16 state game areas between May 7 and May 22, 1953.
Results of a survey of farmer cooperators requesting information on dats of plowing/mowing and numbers of pheasant nests and broods seen during those operations.
This report summarizes the results and provides data tables of the 1981 pheasant crowing survey, with data broken down by country and region. The 1980-81 winter was quite mild throughout the pheasant range and there was hope for a continuation in the upswing which began the previous year. Results of the crowing survey did not reflect this, however, with overall counts practically unchanged from 1980.
Report of a survey completed to estimate the number of people hunting small game, their days afield, and harvest during the 2010-2011 hunting seasons. The survey also was used to investigate hunter satisfaction, compliance with the Harvest Information Program (HIP), estimate the number of people hunting on Hunting Access Program (HAP) lands (private land leased for hunting), and estimate the number of hunters using the internet application Mi-Hunt to locate potential hunting areas.
Results of a study to evaluate the use of a combination of air-ground searches to estimate the number of dead deer.
Quail numbers have rebounded dramatically across much of the traditional range during the past three years. This report is a summary of breeding surveys conducted during 1986, 1987, and 1988.
Results and analysis of the 1971 spring pheasant crowing survey.
Memorandum on investigations into concerns of a lack of pheasants on the Gotfredson Farm near Grass Lake.
Report on field trip to survey pinnated and sharp-tailed grouse populations in upper Michigan.
Results and discussion of the 1962 rural mail carrier pheasant brood survey, conducted July - August.
Results of a survey completed to determine the number of people hunting mourning doves, the number of days hunting, and the number of doves harvested in Michigan.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) monitors northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) distribution and relative abundance using whistling surveys, hunter harvest and effort surveys, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Breeding Bird Surveys. This report contains the results of the 1998 whistling surveys. A total of 32 quail whistling surveys were completed in 1998. Quail surveys were not conducted in 1996 or 1997. The mean index in 1998 increased 44.8% to 5.7 quail heard per route from 3.9 in 1995 (35 routes). The majority of the routes showed an increase in quail heard per route since 1995.
In 1982, the deer pellet group survey was carried out in all of Michigan's northern deer range. The area surveyed includes the Upper Peninsula and the northern half of the Lower Peninsula. The average aver-winter deer population in the Upper Peninsula was estimated to be 285,830 animals, while the average over-winter population in the northern half of the Lower Peninsula was estimated to be 421,300 animals. After legal kill and over-winter losses are taken into account, the two regional, corresponding spring deer population estimates, prior to fawning, were 271,760 animals and 378,840 animals.
Report of a survey completed to determine the number of people hunting and trapping bobcats in Michigan, the number of days spent afield (effort), and the number of bobcats registered in 2009.
Report on Michigan's results in the annual nation-wide midwinter waterfowl survey in January, 1974. Includes comparative data for 1967-1973.
