Other Hunting/Trapping Opportunities
beyond State Wildlife and Game Areas (SWGAs):

Other Public Lands:
• DNR State Forest  and  State Parks and Recreation Areas.
• DNR State Fisheries do not have hunting or trapping opportunities.
• Federal, county and local public lands occur all over Michigan; contact the appropriate land manager to check details.

Special Program Type Areas:
• Grouse Enhanced Management Sites (GEMS) - are premier grouse bird-hunting feature areas with specially prepared locations, habitat, hunter trails, and more. To date: one GEMS is on Federal Forest land, one on cooperating privately owned land, and the rest are on State lands.
• Turkey Tracts - are a newly developing feature area for turkey, like GEMs is for grouse. Current Turkey Tracts areas are subunits of: Allegan State Game Area, Flat River State Game Area, and Barry State Game Area.

Private Land Opportunities:
• DNR Hunter Access Program (HAP) for select privately-owned lands and
             are primarily located in the lower peninsula and eastern upper peninsula.
• DNR Commercial Forest (CF) Program are select commercial (private) owned lands and
             are primarily located in the upper peninsula and northern lower peninsula.
• Select Privately-Owned Lands Open to Public Hunting [pdf] are a few parcels
             in Barry and Crawford counties, where the State has reserved public hunting rights.