Description: <div><b><u>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DNR_SDE.DNR_WILD.limited_firearms_line_zone_divider_2015 (Polyline layer)"</u></b> ... is the polyline-data-format layer representing the current limited-firearms-line sone-divider as defined in 2015 and currently applicable for hunting; in summary the line divides the lower peninsula east to west from the center of Bay county shoreline of Saginaw Bay, then westerly and west-by-south-westerly meandering along major highways and roads across those counties of Bay, Saginaw, Gratiot, Montcalm, Ionia, Kent, and Muskegon (however for specifics, please see the official and legal definition of the line in the State of Michigan, Wildlife Conservation Order, Chapter 1, section 1.2 definitions, in subsection 1.2.17 "Limited firearms deer zone" (where it state " “Limited firearms deer zone” means that area south of a line beginning at a point on the Wisconsin- Michigan boundryline directly west of the west end of highway M-46; then east to M-46 and east along M- 46 to its junction with freeway US-131; then south along freeway US-131 to M-57; then east along M-57 to its intersection with Montcalm road on the Kent-Montcalm county line; then south along that county line and the Ionia-Kent county line to its intersection with M-44; then east along M-44 to its intersection with M66; then north along M-66 to its intersection with M-57; then east along M-57 to its intersection with M- 52; then north along M-52 to its intersection with M-46; then east along M-46 to its intersection with M-47; then north along M-47 to its junction with US-10; then east along US-10 to its junction with I-75; then north along I-75 and US-23 to its junction with beaver road, Kawkawlin township, Bay county; then east along beaver road to Saginaw bay; then north 50 degrees east to the international boundary with Canada."), as per 368, MCL 333.17801.<br /></div><div><br /></div><b>The official and legal representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs), or a rule/regulatory element like this zone boundary line</b>, are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "County_Boundaries" is a polyline-data-format version of the State of Michigan County line boundaries polygon boundary, used for the "Deer Management Units (DMU) map viewer tool, public-facing, and used as a cartographic reference layer supporting display and comprehension of those deer management units and related data presented in the DMU map viewer. This layer will eventually be replaced with a live connected to a data layer service / hosted feature-layer, of authoritative base data (expected in upgrade in 2023-2024 winter seasons).</div><div><br /></div><div>This layer has origins in the seasonal deer digest cartographic map product used in the annual hunting digest/regulations-summary or the annual deer hunting digest/regulations-summary.</div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div><b><u>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "</u></b><span style="background-color:rgb(0, 122, 194); color:rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:"Avenir Next W01", "Avenir Next W00", "Avenir Next", Avenir, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:20px; text-wrap:nowrap;">DMU_487</span><b><u> (Polygon layer)"</u></b> ... is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current lower-peninsula northeastern portion, regional deer management unit (DMU) 487 regional multi-county-unit and those county-sized DMUs within that area covered by DMU487, from the complete set of current DMUs for the year. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div><div><br /></div><b>The official and legal representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs), or a rule/regulatory element like this zone boundary line</b>, are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div><b><u>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DNR_SDE.DNR_WILD.whitetailed_deer_2014_management_unit_LP_extension_lines (Polyline layer)</u></b>" ... is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current DMUs for the current year, as polylines, extended into the water (created in 2014) for lower-peninsula (or "lp") DMUs. </div><div><br /></div><div>This polyline-data-format layer version assists with understanding extent of deer management units in Michigan, used for the "Deer Management Units (DMU) map viewer tool, public-facing, and used as a cartographic reference layer supporting display and comprehension of those deer management units and related data presented in the DMU map viewer. This layer will eventually be replaced with a live connected to a data layer service / hosted feature-layer, of authoritative base data (expected in upgrade in 2023-2024 winter seasons).</div><div><br /></div><div>This layer has origins in the seasonal deer digest cartographic map product used in the annual hunting digest/regulations-summary or the annual deer hunting digest/regulations-summary.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div><div><b><u>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DNR_SDE.DNR_WILD.deer_management_unit_lines_2013_lp_extension_lines (Polyline layer)"</u></b> ... is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current DMUs for the current year, as polylines, extended into the water (created in 2013) for lower-peninsula (or "lp") DMUs. </div><div><br /></div><div>This polyline-data-format layer version assists with understanding extent of deer management units in Michigan, used for the "Deer Management Units (DMU) map viewer tool, public-facing, and used as a cartographic reference layer supporting display and comprehension of those deer management units and related data presented in the DMU map viewer. This layer will eventually be replaced with a live connected to a data layer service / hosted feature-layer, of authoritative base data (expected in upgrade in 2023-2024 winter seasons).</div><div><br /></div><div>This layer has origins in the seasonal deer digest cartographic map product used in the annual hunting digest/regulations-summary or the annual deer hunting digest/regulations-summary.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div><b><u>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DNR_SDE.DNR_WILD.deer_management_unit_lines_2013_up_extension_lines (Polyline layer)"</u></b> ... is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current DMUs for the current year, as polylines, extended into the water (created in 2013) for upper-peninsula (or "up") DMUs. </div><div><br /></div><div>This polyline-data-format layer version assists with understanding extent of deer management units in Michigan, used for the "Deer Management Units (DMU) map viewer tool, public-facing, and used as a cartographic reference layer supporting display and comprehension of those deer management units and related data presented in the DMU map viewer. This layer will eventually be replaced with a live connected to a data layer service / hosted feature-layer, of authoritative base data (expected in upgrade in 2023-2024 winter seasons).</div><div><br /></div><div>This layer has origins in the seasonal deer digest cartographic map product used in the annual hunting digest/regulations-summary or the annual deer hunting digest/regulations-summary.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div><div><br /></div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DNR_SDE.DNR_WILD.deer_whitetailed_management_unit_lines_EDIT (Polyline layer)" ... or "Deer Management Units (DMUs)" is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current DMUs as polylines, for the year. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div><div><br /></div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <div>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DMUs" (polygons) ... or "Deer Management Units (DMUs)" is the polygon-data-format layer representing the current DMUs for the year. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon data layer but be aware the map viewer does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations).</div><div><u>Deer Management Units (or DMUs)</u> are defined as specific geographical areas that split the entire State of Michigan into smaller pieces, and which allow the DNR to identify, manage, and communicate about various deer populations or deer management dynamics for a specific land-extent (polygon) area with all the other DMUs in Michigan. The official representation of any Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game or nongame species management units such as deer (DMUs) are the official legal text/language definitions as stated in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/laws/orders/wildlife-conservation-order" target="_blank">Michigan Wildlife Conservation Order (chapter 12)</a> &/or in the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/dnrlaws" target="_blank">DNR Land-Use Orders of the Director (LUOoD)</a>, and are not any geospatial data or map product. GIS data, such as this DMU data layer, or maps produced with GIS data, are simply a tool of convenience and are not official or legal products or representations.</div><div><i><u>Purpose:</u> </i>DMUs allow DNR staff, particularly those in the DNR Wildlife Division, to make strategic and operational management decisions concerning Michigan’s white-tailed deer populations. DMUs are created based on a variety of considerations like land ownership patterns, habitat, weather conditions, deer herd estimates, deer population management needs like harvest quotas, and other factors; DMUs are typically county-sized but some DMUs are actually aggregations of several DMUs in order to make a regional DMU which usually is used to represent management activities common across those individual DMUs and in order to more easily explain or present the larger area to cooperators, collaborators and public users like deer hunters.<br /></div><div><i><u>From a public perspective</u></i>, for the majority, DMUs serve as the representational boundaries for hunters who take part in the various types of deer hunts throughout the fall deer hunting seasons, and are the extent representing the potential area where a hunter can use a purchased license (for an offered DMU in a specific hunt period in a specific hunt season or type).</div><div><br /></div><div>Ultimately DMUs are used in a map service powering the "Deer Management Units Viewer" webmap application (see it online at https://midnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a56c741486c44de88289804cd4a12777 ). ...</div><div><br /></div><div>Deer Management Units (or DMUs) Viewer is a tool to easily see the current DMUs across the state; however, the map viewer tool does not show the various related complications and interrelated rules and regulations affecting activities within a given DMU, etc. Please see the DNR online deer information, for more information supplementing the DMU representations.</div><div><br /></div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.
Description: <b>DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "State Boundary" </b>is a polyline-data-format version of the State of Michigan polygon boundary, used for the "Deer Management Units (DMU) map viewer tool, public-facing, and used as a cartographic reference layer supporting display and comprehension of those deer management units and related data presented in the DMU map viewer. This layer will eventually be replaced with a live connected to a data layer service / hosted feature-layer, of authoritative base data (expected in upgrade in 2023-2024 winter seasons).<div><br /></div><div>This layer has origins in the seasonal deer digest cartographic map product used in the annual <b>hunting digest/regulations-summary</b> or the <b>annual deer hunting digest/regulations-summary.</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>
Copyright Text: * On this specific data resource, the lead/primary contact is M.Strong, DNR Wildlife Division ( strongm@michigan.gov ; ph/c/t 517-256-5397), is the DNR Wildlife Division authoritative spatial data lead, and be aware it may be internal-use-only, draft, as-is, etc. so ask before using as authoritative data or check is marked as authoritative data as a cateogory, tag, initial summary comment, or in the description, etc.
* For Citation, use: Mich.DNR-WLD. 2023. (Cite this specific data set by name and date in any citations please). Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division (WLD; specifically, the WLD Mapping and Geotechnology Program Specialist, currently M.Strong), P.O. Box 30444, Lansing, Michigan / MI 48909-7944, USA. Online: www.mi.gov/dnr; email: DNR-Wildlife@michigan.gov ; phone: 517-284-9453. Cite date these data were accessed please.