If wind is your most important weather factor for opening morning, the forecast at 7 a.m. shows a light northwest wind for most areas of Lower Michigan and a light north wind for northeast Lower Michigan. Wind speeds should be less than five miles per hour in the white shaded areas and less than 7 mph in the gray shaded areas.

Firearm season is the fifth period this fall during which hunters may take deer. An additional five seasons will take place into 2025 allowing hunters to take antlerless deer or use such things as muzzleloaders.

It will be smarter than ever to wear blaze orange when going into the woods this weekend, as New Hampshire heads into the year’s most popular hunting season.Firearm season for white-tailed deer began Wednesday,