Discounted Antlerless Licenses For Kent County
The Department of Natural Resources announced today that a Wildlife Order will be signed that will offer discounted antlerless deer licenses in Deer Management Unit 041 (Kent County). Hunters can purchase the antlerless licenses at a 70 percent discount — $3 for a Michigan resident and $30 for a non-resident.
“This discount is being used to encourage more hunters to harvest antlerless deer in Kent County, where we have detected Michigan’s first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a privately owned white-tailed deer,” said DNR Director Rebecca Humphries. “The discount does not reflect the value of the animal, but is designed to help us encourage hunters to take an antlerless deer. Testing these deer for CWD will assist the DNR in determining if CWD exist in the deer herd of Northern Kent County.”
All successful hunters in the CWD surveillance zone of Tyrone, Solon, Nelson, Sparta, Algoma, Courtland, Alpine, Plainfield and Cannon townships in Kent County will be required to visit a DNR deer check station.
Deer must be presented to a DNR deer check station within 72 hours of being killed. If the deer shows physical signs of CWD, the DNR will take the entire carcass for disease testing. Hunters having to surrender the entire deer will be given replacement kill tags to take another deer.
A list of check stations in the CWD surveillance zone for the Sept. 18-22 antlerless private land hunt will be made available soon.
As with all hunting license fees, the revenue generated from antlerless deer license sales is deposited in the Game and Fish Protection Fund, which is a restricted fund used to support game and fish management programs in Michigan.
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