Hunting and fishing have trended up during the pandemic, but what happens next remains in flux.
The abundance of natural resources at the footsteps and fingertips of Michigan residents is massive, ranging from the lakes, streams to the forests.
According to a report from The Associated Press, numbers of hunters and anglers taking advantage of those resources have risen to new heights and made up for years of decline.
Michigan DNR Becoming an Outdoors Woman instructor Nome Buckman-Stark assists someone while learning how to fly fish.
Credit Michigan Department of Natural Resources
More than 545,000 hunters in Michigan had bought licenses through Nov. 11, 2020 That number is nearly 10 percent more than at the same point in 2019, according to the AP report and data from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR).