Planting of food plots or other vegetation is not allowed.No cutting, breaking or clearing of vegetation.No fires, smoking, camping, littering (including the use of plastic flagging) or dumping of ashes, trash, garbage, chemical waste or other unsightly or offensive material on TNC property.Alcohol is not allowed on TNC reserves or in preserve parking lots.No hunting is allowed within a 200-yard radius of any inhabited dwelling.
Unnecessary shooting or shooting at targets is prohibited. To prevent unintended harm to other preserve users, no long-range shooting is allowed across open fields, marshes or roads.Hunters must adhere to all MI Department of Natural Resources rules and regulations, must comply with all relevant local, state and federal laws and ordinances governing hunting activities such as seasons and harvest limits, and must obtain all required government licenses or permits.Leaseholders should refer to their TNC documentation for guidelines. To hunt on TNC reserves, you must agree to the following rules and statements. Hunting helps protect these flowers and allows them to continue to grow. Houghton's goldenrod and the dwarf lake iris are two federally and state-threatened wildflowers that can be found at our northern lower preserves. Michigan wildflowers are also impacted by deer browse. Animals that nest or forage in the shrub layer are not, in some cases, able to adapt to such dramatic changes in forest structure and must find suitable habitats elsewhere or persist at low numbers.
In heavily browsed areas, the shrub layer is virtually absent or is populated almost entirely by species (such as balsam fir or leatherwood) that deer tend not to eat. These changes in vegetation that result from deer browsing have been shown to affect birds. If the pressure continues, the composition of Michigan’s forests will be changed, perhaps irreversibly.ĭeer also prefer some herbaceous plants over others, and the decline or disappearance of some species has been attributed to deer browsing activity. Several tree species (such as northern white-cedar, sugar maple, eastern hemlock and several oaks) that are preferred as browse are failing to regenerate where deer numbers are high. Some shrubs, such as the Canada yew, are in severe decline throughout most of the state due to this browsing pressure. Natural ecosystems are not adapted to the high population levels of white-tailed deer and are being degraded through the over-browsing of the shrub and ground cover layers.
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