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Pheasant endorsement: Pheasant hunters will need a free pheasant/sharp-tailed grouse endorsement on their hunting license, except those hunting pheasant only on hunting preserves.
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Pheasant (male only) seasons:
- Zone 1*: Oct. 10 - 31.
- Zone 2 and 3: Oct. 20 - Nov. 14.
- Zone 3*: Dec. 1 - Jan. 1.
* For Zone 1 Pheasant Management Unit and Zone 3 December Pheasant Management Unit information, please see page 54 of the 2019 Hunting Digest.
The daily bag limit for pheasants is two birds. Visit Michigan.gov/Hunting to learn more.
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The Michigan Legislature passed Public Act 618 of 2018, which appropriated
$260,000 from the general fund to the DNR for a pheasant release program
during fall 2019 and 2020.
The pheasant releases are being done in partnership with the Michigan Association of Game Breeders and Hunting Preserves. Association members will be releasing the birds on a weekly basis at the designated game areas.
Pheasant releases this year will take place on 11 different state game areas in the following counties:
- Bay County: Pinconning State Game Area.
- Cass County: Crane Pond State Game Area.
- Clinton County: Rose Lake State Game Area.
- Lapeer County: Lapeer State Game Area.
- Monroe County: Erie and Pointe Mouillee state game areas.
- Saginaw County: Crow Island State Game Area.
- Sanilac County: Minden City State Game Area.
- St. Clair County: St. Johns Marsh State Game Area.
- St. Joseph County: Leidy Lake State Game Area.
- Van Buren County: Cornish State Game Area.
Learn more about the Michigan Pheasant Hunting Initiative.
The Michigan Pheasant Restoration Initiative is a conservation initiative to restore and enhance Michigan pheasant habitat, populations and hunting opportunities on private and public lands. The initiative works by acquiring state and federal resources to assist landowners within cooperatives in improving wildlife habitat on their property and by improving habitat on selected state game areas, recreation areas and other public and private lands.
Partners work to secure adequate staffing to accomplish MPRI habitat improvement, hunter access, education and outreach, hunter recruitment, retention and reactivation and population monitoring goals.
A Mid-Point Accomplishments Report detailing the work completed by the coalition in the first five years of the MPRI partnership is available for review. The 2018 MPRI Annual Report is also available.
Grasslands provide great benefits to wildlife and to people as well. In addition to providing habitat and food resources for wildlife, grasslands help to improve water and air quality – important for all of us in Michigan and throughout the world! They are also simply stunning to view in mid-to-late summer when the prairie wildflowers are in full bloom.
In addition, grasslands pollinators like bees, and monarch butterflies help to pollinate our crops, keeping the United States fed! Without grasslands, we’d be in real trouble. Throughout Michigan, grasslands are disappearing to agriculture and development and are now one of the rarest habitat types in the world
Grassland wildlife needs your help to thrive! The new Adopt-a-Game-Area program, a partnership between the Michigan DNR, Pheasants Forever and the Hal and Jean Glassen Foundation, allows you to sponsor habitat projects on state lands that you use and enjoy. Your support of this program will provide valuable nesting habitat, brood-rearing habitat, foraging habitat, and winter habitat for a wide range of wildlife including deer, turkeys, pheasants, ducks, cottontail rabbits, songbirds, and pollinators.
You can become a sponsor today! Earn Gold (over $25,000), Silver (over $5,000) or Bronze (over $500) sponsorship levels with your tax-deductible donation. Contact Ben Beaman at bbeaman@pheasantsforever.org to make your donation in support of Michigan State Game Areas today!
Learn more about the program and public lands that you can support at Michigan.gov/Pheasant.
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