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A survey was completed to determine the number of people hunting sharp-tailed grouse, the number of days hunting, and the number of sharp-tailed grouse harvested in Michigan.

A survey was completed to determine the number of people hunting sharp-tailed grouse, the number of days hunting, and the number of sharp-tailed grouse harvested in Michigan.

Hunter cooperator surveys, spring breeding surveys, and mail harvest surveys are conducted each year to monitor ruffed grouse and American woodcock populations.

Report on the estimate number of people hunting small game, their days afield, and harvest during the 2015 hunting seasons.

A survey was completed to estimate the number of people hunting small game species, their days afield, and harvest during the 2017 hunting seasons. The survey also was used to investigate hunter satisfaction, to measure compliance with the Harvest Information Program (HIP), to estimate the number of people hunting on Hunting Access Program (HAP) lands and on Grouse Enhanced Management Sites (GEMS), and to estimate the number of hunters using the internet application Mi-Hunt to locate hunting areas. 

Adult and youth collect an American Beaver (Castor canadensis) from a trap. The DNR has established specific trapping seasons when furbearers may be taken. Wildlife biologists recognize trapping as an important wildlife management tool and regulate and scientifically monitor trapping to ensure that the most humane methods are used and that the population is never endangered.

A youth shows off his eastern cottontail kill to his mentor.

Report of results and conditions of the 1961 grouse season.

A sample of small game license buyers was contacted after the 2006 hunting seasons to estimate the number of people hunting small game, their days afield, and harvest. The survey also was used to investigate hunter satisfaction and to estimate trip expenditures for small game hunting.

Report overviewing the various management needs and goals for the Gladwin Field Trial Area.

Results, conditions, and discussion of the 1963 pheasant hunting season.

Memo on obstacles to creating an open season on bobwhite quail.

The 1983 statewide ruffed grouse harvest data was not completed (computer program problems). Minnesota and Wisconsin harvest surveys for 1983 show a decrease from 1982. Based on hunter cooperator comments and wildlife biologists' field reports, Michigan harvest results were expected to show a decrease in 1983. Cooperators were in general agreement that this was a poor hunting year. Many expressed the view that ruffed grouse were at the bottom of their population swing. In the Upper Peninsula, ruffed grouse flush rates dropped from 1.30 per hour in 1982 to 1. 11 in 1983, equaling 1973 and 1974 rates, which is well below the 25-year average of 1.37. Woodcock flush rates were down slightly in 1982 to 1.42 flushes per hour. This is above the 23-year average of 1.21 flushes per hour. In the northern Lower Peninsula, hunters flushed 1.68 grouse per hour down from 1.97 in 1982--the lowest since 1970 and below the 25-year average of 2.17. Woodcock flush rates were down from 2.22 to 1.62 for 1983, but still above the 23-year average of 1.27. In the southern Lower Peninsula, ruffed grouse flush rates dropped from 2.1 to 1.59 below the 25-year average of 2.19. Woodcock flush rates were also down from .85 to .54. This is below the 23-year average of .64 per hour.

Statewide, as compared to 1979, the grouse harvest was up five percent with a take of 756,660 birds in 1980 as compared to 723,910 in 1979. With woodcock, the 1980 harvest of 299,590 "timberdoodles" represents a seven percent drop from the 1979 figure of 321,830. For ruffed grouse, hunter numbers in 1980 decreased five percent, with an increased grouse harvest and fewer hunters, the average bag per hunter was up slightly. For 1981, Field biologists in the U.P. predict a better than average season in the west and central portions, with prospects for the eastern U.P. about average. In the northern lower Peninsula, the forecast is uniformly a slightly improved season over last year. The southern lower Peninsula should be roughly the same as last year, with prospects brightest on private lands because of lower hunter pressure.

A random sample of names was selected from the 1982 list of small game licensees. Even though these hunters were selected from the 1982 license file, they were asked about their hunting experiences during the 1983 ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) season. In 1983, grouse kill appeared to be somewhat proportional to the hunting effort. Examination of the Regional figures revealed much the same pattern. In Region II, the two December hunt periods accounted for 10 percent of the grouse bagged and 8 percent of the hunting effort. Corresponding figures for Region III were 24 percent of the bag and 22 percent of the hunter days. Examination of grouse kill per day hunted by season by Region revealed some interesting results. Upper Peninsula hunters bagged .43 grouse per day in the field compared with .50 in the Northern Lower Peninsula and .52 in the Southern lower Peninsula. Regions II and III success rates varied somewhat throughout the season. Region I grouse hunters appeared to be more successful as the season progressed.

Estimates of small game hunting success based off the 1954 postcard survey of hunters.

This report presents estimates of small game kill and hunter numbers in Michigan for the 1981 small game seasons and any extensions of those seasons into the 1982 calendar year. A total of 417,885 people hunted for small game in the 1981 seasons, the sixth consecutive year of decreasing small game hunter numbers and a drop of 7% from the 1980 total of 448,248 hunters. As a matter of interest, the average drop in small game hunter numbers over the past six years has been almost 7% per year. Hunter takes of squirrels and raccoons, ducks and geese were up over the previous year. Kills of all other species were down. Waterfowl hunters had an exceptionally good year, at least those who participated. Duck hunter numbers dropped again in 1981 to 55,780, the lowest number since 1962. However, this relatively low number of hunters killed 459,420 ducks, an average of 8.2 ducks per hunter, a better average than any other year since mail surveys of small game hunters began in 1954. A total of 54,801 state waterfowl stamps were purchased for the 1981 season.

This report presents estimates of small game kill and hunter numbers in Michigan for the 1985 small game seasons and any extensions of those seasons in the 1986 calendar year. The estimates are derived from hunters' responses to a mail survey asking for a summary report of the results of their small game hunting in 1985.

Report on the results, hunting and conditions of the 1972 pheasant season.

Report summarizing the hunting and results of the 1966 grouse season, with discussion of population prospects for future seasons.

Report on the common occurence of shooting into squirrel nests as part of squirrel hunting and its effects on population.