Michigan’s new one buck rule is supposed to improve deer management and push hunters toward harvesting more does. Instead, it has opened a fierce debate over tradition, fairness, herd health, and what ...

It's been a major motivation for deer hunters for generations, bagging a big buck with a large, many-pointed antler rack. But that longstanding focus on bucks has thrown the male-female ratios of ...

Hunters are divided over a proposed “one buck rule” that some hope would help balance the buck-to-doe ratio, curb overpopulation in the Lower Peninsula and make deer hunting better for future ...

Michigan is on its way to becoming a one-buck state, but that’s only one of a dozen major deer hunting changes that were approved last week. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission approved the “one ...