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• Rules for Baiting and Feeding Deer
doe and fawn in a fieldIn Michigan, baiting and feeding is allowable except in Deer Management Unit 487.

• Baiting and Feeding Rules Video
Demonstration of how to correctly place hunting bait and an explanation of the rules governing baiting and feeding in Michigan, with the DNR's Deer and Elk Program Leader Brent Rudolph.

• Changes in Baiting and Supplemental Feeding Regulations in Michigan PDF icon
In June 2011, the Natural Resources Commission voted to lift the previous deer baiting and feeding ban in the Lower Peninsula. See Chapter III the Wildlife Conservation Order (3.100 and 3.100a), available by clicking on the link above, for details on baiting and feeding regulations.

• What is the Difference Between Supplemental Feeding and Baiting?

• Black Bear Baiting
Bear hunters may use fish or fish products, meat or meat products or bakery products to bait bears in the upper and lower peninsulas.

• Upper Peninsula Supplemental Feeding Program
Permits allowing private citizens and sportsmen's groups in the Upper Peninsula to provide supplemental feed for deer during the winter months are issued by local wildlife biologists under certain provisions. Issuance of supplemental feeding permits depends on location and accumulated snowfall.



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