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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced a white-tailed female deer in Ingham County's Meridian Township tested positive for the contagious and fatal disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk.

Nearly 100,000 turkey hunters statewide spend their mornings tiptoeing through forests and fields trying to entice a big gobbler into shooting range. About 30,000 of them find success each year, enough to catapult Michigan to the No. 7 spot for spring turkey hunting nationally.

State wildlife officials, responding to a declining number of deer in the Upper Peninsula due to harsh winters, have drawn up a list of options, including a ban on deer hunting in that region in the fall.

Michigan is working with Plum Creek Timber Co. to manage more than 16,500 acres of Upper Peninsula forest land for winter deer habitat.

Michigan's House has approved two bills that would prohibit the use of drones by hunters and those seeking to interfere with hunting.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is inviting public feedback on an updated plan for managing the state's gray wolves.

Michigan lawmakers are passing legislation intended to loosen regulations on BB and pellet guns.

Farmers in five northern Lower Peninsula counties are getting a dispensation from Michigan to shoot deer as a way to reduce damage to their fruit trees and other crops.

Bills in the Michigan Legislature would prohibit the use of a drone to hunt animals.

Officials with Michigan's Natural Resources Commission have confirmed there won't be a gray wolf hunt this year.

Lawmakers didn't have it take effect immediately. That means the effective date will be 90 days after the legislative session ends this fall, which rules out a wolf hunt until next year at the earliest.

Vote makes moot two statewide votes forced by animal rights organizations that oppose hunting the the resurgent gray wolf in the Upper Peninsula.

Michigan lawmakers are expected to pass a law to keep intact the state's power to allow wolf hunts.