Cannonsburg State Game Area

Cross-country ski trails offer great access to Cannonsburg State Game Area

If you're looking for a quick-in-and-out public land for deer season, check out our post on Kent County's 1,300 acre Cannonsburg State Game Area on our sister blog Michigan Upland Hunting.
The Michigan DNR manages this area for White-tailed Deer with a variety of practices, including:

• Maintaining and facilitating hunting opportunities on state land by planting: annual food
plots, fruit-bearing trees, legumes, clover, rye, and pea/Sudan grass mixtures.
• Maintaining trees that produce hard mast (beech, oak): maintaining an oak component,
promoting the regeneration of oak, and retaining a representation of mature acorn
producing trees during harvests.
• Maintaining abundant browse by managing for young forests (particularly aspen and jack
pine): performing clear cuts and rotational harvests of timber.
• Maintaining and expanding thermal cover in high snow areas by selecting for conifers,
particularly the white cedar, and hemlock component.
• Maintaining grasslands for food and cover: planting, fertilizing, disking, mowing, haying,
applying herbicides, and prescribed burning.