Males Only
Season Dates:
Zone 1(partial): Oct. 10-31
Zones 2 & 3: Oct. 20 - Nov. 14
Zone 3 (partial): Dec. 1- Jan. 1
(see additional information below)
Bag Limits:
2 per day, 4 possession
Zone 1 is open only in an area bordered by M-189 on the west and south of M-69 and US-2 from Iron River to Escanaba.
Late Season Pheasant Hunting
The shaded area shown on the map below is open to pheasant hunting December 1, 2007 - January 1, 2008 for the taking of male pheasants.
12.750a "December pheasant management unit" defined.
Sec. 12.750a. "December pheasant management unit" means all of Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Huron, Ionia, Ingham, Jackson, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Saginaw, Sanilac, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Tuscola, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties, and those portions of Allegan, Bay, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Kent, Mecosta, Midland, Montcalm, and St. Joseph counties, bounded by a line beginning at the junction of highway US-131 and the Indiana-Michigan border in St. Joseph county, then northerly on highway US‑131 through St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Allegan, Kent, and Montcalm counties to highway M-20 in Mecosta county, easterly on highway M-20 through Mecosta, Isabella, and Midland counties, continuing easterly on highway M-20 through the city of Midland (where highway M-20 is also known as business route US-10) to highway US-10 in Bay county, easterly on highway US-10 to highway I-75 (also known as US-23) in Bay county, continuing easterly on M-25 to the center of the Saginaw river, northerly to the mouth of the Saginaw river (Saginaw bay), north 50 degrees east to the International Boundary (Michigan state border), southerly to the Ohio-Michigan border (including all of St. Clair, Macomb, Wayne and Monroe counties), westerly on the Ohio-Michigan and then Indiana-Michigan borders to the point of beginning.
History: Eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Am. 10, 2004, Eff. May 8, 2004; Am. 6, 2005, Eff. May 6, 2005.