WKAR Public Media | ByMichelle Jokisch Polo

Published June 20, 2023 at 11:43 AM EDT

https://www.wkar.org/wkar-news/2023-06-20/state-department-of-natural-resources-updates-deer-hunting-regulations-in-lower-peninsula

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is updating its deer hunting regulations. The department is reinstating certain restrictions on the kinds of deer that can be harvested in the southern part of the state.

In 2018, the DNR implemented a regulation to prevent chronic wasting disease, an incurable neurological condition that affects deer.

The regulation allowed hunters in parts of the Lower Peninsula where the disease was spreading rampantly to harvest deer with any number points coming off the main part of their antlers.

But statewide deer biologist Chad Stewart says there was no impact on hunters’ behaviors and no change in the number of deer getting infected.

“I think that’s going to continue to spread either with or without antler point restrictions because in some places, it’s fairly widespread,” he…