The Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that antlerless deer license applications for the 2009 hunting season are on sale through Aug. 15. Application fee is $4. Applications are available at all license vendors and through the DNR's e-license system at www.michigan.gov/dnr.

Applications are on sale for all public land licenses and for private land licenses in selected deer management units (DMUs) in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula.

Private land licenses for all other DMUs and leftover licenses go on sale Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.

Drawing results will be posted Sept.1 at www.michigan.gov/dnrdrawings.

Most antlerless deer licenses will not be discounted this season. The cost is $15 for residents, $138 for nonresidents. Antlerless licenses will be discounted 40 percent, however, in the tuberculosis zone and in Kent County, where chronic wasting disease was detected last summer. Discounted licenses cost $9 for residents, $82.80 for nonresidents.

Four new DMUs were created this year. Newaygo County has been divided into northern and southern DMUs. In the eastern Upper Peninsula, former DMU 049 has been divided into eastern and western DMUs.

In addition, two new multi-county DMUs were created for private land in the Lower Peninsula. In the TB zone, DMU 487 includes Presque Isle, Montmorency, Alpena, Oscoda, Alcona and Iosco counties. In southern Michigan, DMU 486 includes all of Zone 3 except Monroe, Wayne, Macomb, St. Clair and Kent counties. Private land licenses in multi-county DMUs are valid in any of those counties.