Description: <div><div><b><u>DMUs_within_DMU487_polyline (feature-layer-hosted)/ -> DMU_Within_487 (polyline)</u></b></div><div>(... similar to ... DMUs_within_DMU487_polygons (feature-layer-hosted)/ -> DMU_Within_487 (polygons) ...</div><div>(... is also like ... DMU_Service (feature-layer-hosted) / -> "DMU_487 (Polygon layer)" )... 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><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Deer Management Units (DMUs) within Michigan</u></b> may be served in this polygon's polyline 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.