Twelve grants awarded across 10 counties
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"Upper Peninsula DNR News"
May 1, 2023
*Contact:* Bill Scullon <
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D*NR announces $100,000 awarded in Upper Peninsula Deer Habitat Improvement grants*
"Projects on private lands aimed at improvements for white-tailed deer"
A white-tailed deer doe and a yearling are shown standing in a meadow.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has awarded a total of $100,000 in deer habitat improvement grant funding to a dozen entities for projects in the Upper Peninsula.
The Deer Habitat Improvement Partnership Initiative is a competitive grant program designed to enhance deer habitat on non-state lands.
This year, 12 grants were awarded [ [link removed] ] from 18 applicants for projects across 10 of the U.P.?s 15 counties. The value of the projects awarded grants totaled $201,541.
?These grants will produce positive impacts in Marquette, Alger, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Baraga, Ontonagon, Gogebic, Schoolcraft and Mackinac counties,? said Bill Scullon, DNR field operations manager and administrator for the grant initiative. ?The planned match for the 12 grants is valued in excess of $79,000 (well in excess of the required 25%) further expanding the impact of the projects.??
Groups eligible for these grants include organizations with a formal mission to promote wildlife conservation and/or hunting, such as sportsmen?s clubs, conservation districts, land conservancies, industrial landowners with more than 10,000 acres, or private land affiliations where two or more unrelated persons jointly own 400 or more acres.
Primary goals for each of the projects include producing tangible deer habitat improvements, building long-term partnerships between the DNR and outside organizations and showcasing the project benefits to the public.
Scullon said the total amount of grant funding available is $100,000. The maximum amount of individual grants is $15,000 and the minimum is $2,000.
Now in its fifteenth year, the initiative is supported by the state?s Deer Range Improvement Program, which is funded by a portion of deer hunting license revenue.
Since the grant program?s inception, nearly $1 million has been made available to U.P. partners for more than 100 projects. The reach of the program has been hundreds of private landowners, over thousands of acres, involving all the region?s 15 counties.
Availability of the grants was announced in February, with a March 3 deadline to apply. Awardees were notified by April 14.
For more information on the grant program, please contact Bill Scullon at 906-250-6781 or
[email protected].
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*Note to editors:* An accompanying photo is available below for download. Caption information follows. Credit: Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
*Deer:* [ [link removed] ] A white-tailed deer doe and a young deer are shown in a meadow.
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