![]() ![]() The deer herd doesn’t seem to be as big as it was then, but, if history has taught us anything, it’s that the deer herd can grow rapidly over time. In 1998, a record harvest of nearly 600,000 deer occurred. The deer herd continued to grow over time and seemed to peak in the 1990s. ![]() While deer hunting was closed in southern Michigan from 1930 to1941, the population grew in the northern forests, which were seeing the impacts of over a decade without antlerless harvest and unchecked growth.īy 1943, for the first time in 70 years, deer could be found in every county in Michigan. In 1925, the season dates were changed to November 15 to 30, dates that modern-day Michigan firearm deer hunters will surely recognize.īy 1930, the “buck only” law was so successful that an abundance of deer was being recognized in some northern areas. In 1921, a “buck only” law was passed that prohibited the take of antlerless deer. After the Department of Conservation was formed, one of the goals was to grow the deer herd after years of being suppressed by market hunting. ![]()
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