This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Absent from every season/bag/fee table and from the exhaustive statutory 'game animal' list in MI DNR's 2026-27 small game regulations summary; falls under the statute's general nongame-bird protection ('cannot be taken at any time'). Commonly attributed to Michigan voters rejecting a 2006 ballot referendum (Proposal 06-3) that would have authorized dove hunting — historical detail not independently re-verified via a live source this session; the not_hunted classification itself rests on the current 2026-27 primary-source absence, not on this historical claim.
Confirmed absence, structural: Michigan is one of only eight states nationally (the only Midwest state) without a mourning dove season at all, following a brief 2004 season overturned by a 2006 statewide referendum; MI DNR runs no dove population-monitoring program of any kind.