Where the deer actually are in Michigan: 9,369 in one county, 118 in another

Pulled Michigan's 2025 county deer harvest roughly an 80x spread top to bottom:

Saginaw — 9,369
Sanilac — 8,784
Montcalm — 7,412
…
Gogebic — 444
Luce — 260
Keweenaw — 118

The whole story is Thumb/central farmland vs the big-woods UP. "Heading up north to deer camp" is a great tradition, but the numbers say the deer are mostly down south in the ag country.

Every state we cover breaks down like this on the site; find the counties that actually produce.