• Premier Deer Website Michigan State University and Department of Natural Resources Working Together to Create Michigan's Premier Source of Deer Information. Visit this site for all things deer.

•  Subscribe to Deer hunting updates from Michigan DNR

• Deer Harvest Reporting Form

• Upper Peninsula Winter Deer Observations 

• Hunting Applications and Drawings View hunting application dates, drawing results, remaining licenses and more.
Note: Drawing notification postcards will no longer be sent by mail. Click this link to view your drawing results online.

• 2012 Michigan Deer Hunting: Status and Prospects 

• Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in White-Tailed Deer Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) is an acute, infectious, often fatal viral disease contracted by wild ruminants but most commonly affecting white-tailed deer.

• Report Diseased Wildlife

• 2011 Deer Harvest Survey Report 

• Crossbow Information

• Regional Deer Advisory Teams

• 2012 Michigan Hunting and Trapping Digest (HTML)

• 2012 Michigan Antlerless Deer Hunting Digest (HTML)

• 2012 Michigan Antlerless Deer Hunting Digest (PDF)  NOTE: Season purchase limits for antlerless deer have changed. Those limits listed in this PDF are no longer valid, please see below HTML version for link to updated season purchase limits.

• Hunting Hours

• Special Deer Seasons and Hunts Youth and 100 Percent Disabled Veteran Firearm Deer Hunting Days, Special Antlerless Deer Seasons, Special Deer Hunts

• 2012 Hoffmaster State Park Deer Hunt Information 

• 2012 Shiawassee River State Game Area Deer Hunt Information 

• Types of Deer Hunting Licenses Available

• 2012 Antlerless Deer Hunting License Information

• How to Obtain an Antlerless Deer License

• Antler Restriction Regulations

• Antler Definitions/Requirements and U.P/DMU 487 Buck Hunting Regulations

• Tagging Big Game and Furbearers

• How to Field-Dress Deer 

• Precautions When Handling and Processing Deer and Other Wild Game

• Venison Processing Guide for Retail Food Establishments 

• Hunters Importing Deer, Elk or Moose

• Check Your Deer Laboratory Results Online

• How Chronic Wasting Disease Affects Hunters

• Precaution About Lead in Venison

• Dioxin Advisory Information

• Deer Carcass Disposal

• Lymph Nodes & Hemal Nodes

• Michigan Deer Management Plan

• Deer Cooperator Patches

• How to Age Michigan Deer

• Quality Deer Management (QDM)

• DNR Shooting Ranges

• White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

• Hunters to Fight Hunger in Michigan

• Deer Management History in Michigan

• Learn to Identify "Button Bucks"