• Wildlife Damage and Nuisance Animal Control Contacts 
List of individuals and companies with current DNR-issued Wildlife Damage and Nuisance Animal Control Permits. THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT CERTIFIED BY THE DNR AND THEIR INCLUSION IN THIS LIST DOES NOT CONSTITUTE DNR ENDORSEMENT. This list is sorted by COUNTY.

• Nuisance Animal Handbook: Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage
External link - This handbook is published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and details the identification, control and management of over 90 species of wildlife.

• Help Keep Wildlife Wild
Wild animals are our neighbors whether we live in the city or the country. Feeding wildlife, on purpose or by accident, can be harmful to the animals and create trouble for everyone. Click on the link above to learn how you can help keep wildlife wild. External Link - produced by the California Department of Fish and Game; some species are not found in Michigan.

• Species with Year-round Hunting Seasons
No closed hunting season for opossum, porcupine, red squirrel, skunk, thirteen-lined ground squirrel, weasel, woodchuck, English (house) sparrow, European starling, and feral pigeon (rock dove). Click on link for additional rules.

• Brochure: How to Minimize Livestock Losses to Predators 

• Brochure: Did A Predator Kill or Injure My Livestock? 

• Control of Certain Nuisance Species

• Feral Swine Information

• Coyote Information

• Bear Information

• Preventing bear problems brochure 

• Nuisance Geese

• MSU's Invasive Species Initaitive web site

• Aquatic Invasive Species

• Asian Longhorned Beetle

• Balsam Woolly Adelgid

• Butterflies: Flying Billboards

• Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)

• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

• Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)

• Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rusticus)

• Sudden Oak Death

• Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)