Wow! I didn't think there would be that much interest. I read the artical John posted and the numbers are a little different when what I was told by the park servive rangers at the main office in Glen Arbor but still close. I was also told that with this being a special hunt in a national park you only need to pay the $25.00 for the park permit and any deer taken would not count against my main land tags. You would need a Michigan small game tag to hunt the small stuff. This is the Federal Goverment we are talking about here so they don't always know their facts. With all this interest, I'll get it in writing and post it.
Someone was asking about contour. It's mostly gently rolling hard woods with a few high spots and a few swamps. The lake in the middle of the island is big, maybe 300 acres (a guess). There are old farms and orchards with open fields and the beach along Lake Michigan is open. I thought I'd find the deer in the apple trees but there are Oaks and Beeches all over so the deer didn't stick to one food source. The weather in October this year ran from a high of 90 early in the month to lows of 30 with a little snow so you never know. We also had a lot of wind and rain in October. The bugs might still be out. The sand flys along the Lake Michigan beach were thick. The Mosquitos not so bad. Don't know about ticks.
Looks like having a group of good hunters on the island in the fall might happen. I'm planning on being on the first boat in the spring to the island for a long weekend of fishing for those bass and scouting around and will gather info from the park service on the 2008 hunt.
Topic: Interest in a cheap "wilderness" deer hunt? (Read 1481 times)
