For Michigan hunters, elk and bear hunting applications ... opens in October and ends in early January. The two ruffed grouse hunting seasons are Sept. 15-Nov. 14 and Dec. 1-Jan. 1, 2026.

“If you’re a young lady and you like to hunt, your spouse or boyfriend can hang along the trail and look for frogs or wildflowers,” explained Al Stewart, upland birds expert for Michigan ...

LANSING -- Michigan bird hunters ... a very specific way to monitor hunting activity with the birds," Stewart said. The last hunting season for sharp-tailed grouse was in 1996, when surveys ...

sharp-tailed grouse, woodchuck, woodcock, quail, crow and waterfowl during the open season for each species. For Michigan residents, it also covers coyote hunting. A separate woodcock season ...

MICHIGAN (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Department of Natural Resources is suggesting bird hunters get a head start on planning their hunting season. There are nineteen "Grouse Enhanced Management Sites ...

LANSING — A grouse hunter's inventive ... that promise could lose their hunting licenses for life. The legislation doesn't add an exemption from Michigan's public records law, which some ...

FAIRVIEW — Last week, I had one of the more unusual grouse openers in my bird hunting history. I joined a group of traditional muzzleloaders from throughout Michigan for a grouse-and-squirrel ...