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MI: Hunters’ Rights Preserved in Huron-Manistee

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By Justin McDaniel

A single citizen’s five-year legal battle to end gun hunting and snowmobiling in portions of Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forests—an effort that very well could have jeopardized hunting in all national forests—reached its likely end on Monday, when the U.S. Forest Service announced that both activities will be allowed to continue. 

That decision stems from a 2010 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the Forest Service failed to comply with several of its own regulations and a federal statute during revision of the 2006 Land and Resource Management Plan for the Huron-Manistee National Forests.

Kurt Meister, a forest user who owns a cabin in nearby Cadillac, Mich., filed suit in 2007 alleging that the management plan for Huron-Manistee favored gun hunting and snowmobile riding over “quiet” recreational activities. He sought to have approximately 66,500 acres of semi-primitive, non-motorized areas set aside for quiet uses. His complaint was originally thrown out by a federal district judge in Detroit, but Meister won on appeal.

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