Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan elk hunters could see longer hunting periods in 2026-27 under draft proposals from the Michigan Department of Natural ...

Michigan's elk harvest over two fall seasons increased in 2024 despite "challenging" weather, the DNR said in its preliminary elk report. "High temperatures during the fall hunt reduced elk movement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan elk hunters claimed more than 150 animals during 2025's hunting season, including one by an 87-year-old Hastings man who ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources received a record 47,493 applications for 260 elk licenses in 2025.

Michigan hunters harvested 180 elk in 2024, according to a Michigan Department of Natural Resources news release. Michigan has two hunting periods for elk in northern Michigan. In 2024, period one ran ...

GAYLORD — Michigan elk hunters could see longer hunting seasons in 2026 and 2027 under draft proposals from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. According to a Nov. 4 news release from the ...

LANSING — Michigan hunters harvested 153 elk in 2025 as a record 47,493 people applied for one of 260 elk licenses issued through the state’s annual drawing, according to the Michigan Department of ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Michigan elk hunters could see significantly longer harvest windows under draft proposals from the Department of Natural Resources for the 2026–27 season. The plan would ...

Nov 4, 2025 Nov 4, 2025 Updated Jan 20, 2026 NORTHERN MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Michigan elk hunters might see longer harvest periods for the 2026-2027 hunting cycle under new draft proposals by the Michigan ...

It took 61 years for this hunter to get a chance at a Michigan elk hunt. Bruce Nelson, 87, of Hastings, applied for an elk license every year that Michigan has held a drawing, which began in 1964. He ...

Roaming Pigeon River Country with their bugle-like calls is one of the largest free-roaming elk herds east of the Mississippi. Readers who have followed Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine over the ...