AUG 16, 2021
MINING JOURNAL STAFF
MARQUETTE — A group of deer hunters organized by Marquette outdoors writer Richard P. Smith has launched a legal challenge in Ingham County Circuit Court to several Upper Peninsula deer hunting decisions by the Natural Resources Commission.
At its February meeting, the NRC rejected three changes to U.P. deer hunting regulations recommended by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The DNR used the best available science in making those recommendations, Deer Hunters for Responsible UP Deer Management stated in its challenge.
Those proposed changes would have eliminated“Hunter’s Choice”regulations in the U.P., made does legal to bowhunters throughout the U.P. and made crossbows legal for deer hunting in the U.P. during the December archery deer season.
Proposal G, a law passed by 70% of Michigan voters in 1996, requires the NRC to use the best available science when making decisions…
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