MARQUETTE, MI-- The Department of Natural Resources has awarded $100,000 in deer habitat improvement grants to 11 recipients in the U.P.
The money will be used to enhance whitetail habitat on non-state-managed lands.
The grant proposal recipients selected for 2017 are:
- U.P. Whitetails Inc. - $6,829
- Ontonagon County Chapter of Whitetails Unlimited - $8,000
- Dickinson Conservation District - $12,000
- Gogebic Conservation District - $5,811
- Camp Debby LLC. - $10,000
- Sustainable Resources/ Forest Park School District - $5,360
- Chippewa-Luce-Mackinac Conservation District - $10,000
- Iron-Baraga Conservation District - $13,000
- Marquette County Conservation District - $13,000
- The Forestland Group and U.P. Whitetails Inc. - $10,000
- Schoolcraft Conservation District - $6,000
This season’s grant projects involve enhancing spring breakout wildlife openings with nutritious forage, planting large oak saplings in areas impacted by beech bark disease, planting soft mast trees for high-calorie fall foods, conifer plantings in deer wintering complexes, creating hunter walking trails, and scarifying land within deer wintering complexes to promote regeneration of long-lived conifers and other trees that need bare mineral soils exposed to grow in.
