by Linda Gallagher | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
They say time seems to pass faster when you get older. How true that is for me. It seems like the spring turkey season just ended, but we’re already looking at fall and another fall turkey sea- son here in Area J. No one’s quite sure why we continue to have a fall...
by Steve Cunningham | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
The Michigan Resource Stewards is an organization of retired professional employees of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Michigan Department o Environmental Quality. When gathered in a meeting room there is more expertise than can be found anywhere....
by Bill Latka | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
As we have done for over the past 30 years we supported our winter survival program. We began on 12/31/16 with the purchase of 10,000 pounds of shelled corn from Leroy Milling. An additional 5,000 pounds was purchased on 2/7/17 for a total of $1,447. It ended on...
by John Gunnell | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
For the past several years I have written numerous articles about my outdoor experiences, without mincing words, in identifying forces that compromise natureai??i??s way. I trace my lineage courtesy of a long line of ethical outdoorsmen. I was taught to recognize and...
by Jim Maturen | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
In 1977 the Michigan DNR promised turkey hunters that if they were willing to purchase a special license that the license fee would be used to manage Wild Turkeys throughout the state. In 1977 the turkey license was established by the legislature. The law stated: The...
by Gary Maas | Sep 30, 2017 | Turkey Tracks - September 2017
It was the first Sunday in the May turkey season and my brother-in-law called me around lunchtime to tell me he was coming back from the transfer site (for those who live in other parts of this great state a “transfer site” is where garbage is transferred from one’s...
