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Deer Management Initiative

Deer Management Initiative

  • A white-tailed deer, shown from the chest and torso up, faces the camera. A few thin, bare trees are in the background.

    The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, is initiating a comprehensive Deer Management Initiative aimed at evaluating and responding to present-day deer management challenges. The initiative seeks to develop recommendations to address these challenges and ensure the sustainable and healthy management of deer populations and their habitats across the state.

    Video: DMI summaries 

Deer Management Initiative reports submitted by initiative participants

Meeting videos

  • Deer population and harvest reporting 20240311

  • Northern hardwoods research 20240312

  • Wisconsin deer management 20240318

  • Recruitment, retention, reactivation 20240319

  • Climate, venison don., forest impacts 20240402

  • Deer impacts to agriculture 20240402

  • UP predator-prey, deer migration 20240411

  • Deer wintering complexes 20240411

  • Wolves 20240415

  • CWD and bTB 20240416

  • UP Deer Regulation 20240426

  • LP Deer Regulations 20240418