“upper peninsula”

The 2024 winter wolf population survey estimate from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources found a minimum of 762 wolves in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.), demonstrating a continued trend of statistical stability in Michigan’s wolf population.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is home to some of the most rewarding and torturous grouse habitat in the country. Grouse hunters who flock there wouldn’t have it any other way.

Deer-hunter harvests tallied crossing the Mackinac Bridge have consistently reflected Michigan's Upper Peninsula gun-harvest trends for 62 years.

With media consumption and its influence at an all-time high, positive Hollywood-depictions of hunting may provide a way to introduce new hunters to our ranks.

We’ve all heard them: far-fetched tales from the great outdoors. Trouble is, once the rumor mill fires up it’s hard to sort half-lies, myths and legends from the truth. Sometimes, hunters just can’t help themselves.

Until someone runs over Bigfoot, no roadkill will equal the fame achieved by a 3-year-old male cougar that got SUV’d in June 2011 near Milford, Conn., on the Wilbur Cross Parkway.

Surprising upland opportunities abound in the East. But the wisdom to find them is fading like an old hunter’s hairline.

Hunters who have the mountains of north-central Pennsylvania in their blood will always come back for deer season.

A fundamental change to deer management is coming. Changes that can and will affect your deer season. Let Field Editor Frank Miniter explain.