MARQUETTE, MI-- The Michigan DNR is partnering with Plum Creek Timber Company to improve more than 16,000 acres of winter deer habitat in the U.P.
Wildlife biologist John DePue says hemlock can live more than 300 years and is a preferred winter food for whitetails, but it’s difficult to establish. He says the goal is to retain at least a 70-percent conifer canopy, which reduces the amount of snow on the ground and lets deer move more easily.
The partnership will focus on the Menge Creek deer wintering complex in Baraga County and the Huron Mountains DWC along Lake Superior in Northeastern Baraga and Northwestern Marquette counties.
