Michigan boosts licenses to hunt antlerless deer

Posted: 07.13.2009 at 9:46 PM

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Hunters in most Michigan regions will be
(AP) -- allowed to kill more antlerless deer in the upcoming season.
      The state's Natural Resources Commission has voted to increase
the quota of statewide antlerless deer licenses to about 728,000
this year. That's up almost 14 percent from last year.
      The increase in licenses to hunt does and button bucks will
climb in the northern Lower Peninsula because of an increase in the
deer population.
      The number of licenses for antlerless deer will decline in the
Upper Peninsula.
      Private land licenses will increase in the southern Lower
Peninsula, but public land licenses will decrease.
      The license quota was announced Monday after a recent Natural
Resources Commission meeting.