Commentary: Increasing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula bear licenses would benefit the deer herd

Increasing the Upper Peninsula bear harvest by issuing more bear licenses will increase recruitment of fawns, thereby increasing the white-tailed deer population.
Black bears are major predators on fawns. Retired DNR deer researcher John Ozoga confirmed that single yearling black bears reduced fawn survival by 22% during each year over three years that one bear gained access to the one square mile enclosure at the Cusino Wildlife Research Station in Shingleton.

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