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State Wildlife and Game Areas Information
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Other Public Lands:
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State Forest and
State Parks and Recreation Areas.
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State Fisheries do not have hunting or trapping opportunities.
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Federal, county and local public lands occur all over Michigan;
contact the appropriate land manager to check details.
Special Program Type Areas:
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Grouse Enhanced Management Sites (GEMS) -
are premier grouse bird-hunting feature areas with specially prepared
locations, habitat, hunter trails, and more.
To date: one GEMS is on Federal Forest land,
one on cooperating privately owned land,
and the rest are on State lands.
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Turkey Tracts -
are a newly developing feature area for turkey, like GEMs is for grouse.
Current Turkey Tracts areas are subunits of:
Allegan State Game Area,
Flat River State Game Area, and
Barry State Game Area.
Private Land Opportunities:
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DNR Hunter Access Program (HAP)
for select privately-owned lands and
are primarily located in the lower peninsula and eastern upper peninsula.
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DNR Commercial Forest (CF) Program
are select commercial (private) owned lands and
are primarily located in the upper peninsula and northern lower peninsula.
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Select Privately-Owned Lands Open to Public Hunting [pdf]
are a few parcels
in Barry and Crawford counties, where the
State has reserved public hunting rights.
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