MARQUETTE, MI-- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says this year’s opening day of the firearm deer hunting season was better in some parts of the U.P. than last year.
That’s according to reports from deer check stations.
On Sunday temperatures were in the 50s across the U.P. with lingering patches of snow. In 2014 the region was covered with three to four feet of snow from a three-day storm.
Last year one deer was checked at the Marquette DNR station. This year it checked six whitetails, which is closer to the ten-year average of ten animals brought in on opening day. Nine deer were checked in Escanaba on Sunday, three in Crystal Falls, and one each in Baraga and Shingleton.
Last November hunters harvested 16,338 deer—down 38 percent from 2013.
