Episode description
Join us in the Cabin as we talk with Chad Stewart a deer biologist for Michigan's DNR about their new mandatory deer harvest reporting rule implemented this season.
Chad Stewart's Outdoor background
- Pennsylvania background
- Indiana deer biologist
- West Virginia
- Degrees at Penn State and Illinois
Talking about deer hunting heritages in Pennsylvania and Michigan
Michigan's new deer harvest reporting rule
- Overview of what you need to do when reporting a successful kill
- What does the confirmation number do for us and what do we do with it
- What questions do they ask on the report
- Will you still have check stations to stop at and check your deer in
- How the confirmation number works
- Why do I have to list my kill location
- How does the location work
- Why should I give them my location
- What information are we as hunters going to get out of this
- Reporting multiple deer kills
- When will the data be available to help make decisions
Talking APR's
Real time data will be available to the DNR and the public
Hunter retention and recruitment