POWDER RIVER BASIN — The dead doe’s whereabouts hinted at a brutal death. Clipped or creamed by a vehicle cruising Interstate 90 toward Gillette, her battered remains lay frozen in the bottom of a ...

Wildlife experts have been predicting a mule deer extinction for decades. Luckily, no one seems to have told the deer ...

If you’ve never been mule deer hunting on the prairie or in the mountains, then you should start making a plan to do it right now. Why? You know those dreams in your head of wide, forking antlers ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

SHERIDAN — Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife biologists and game wardens recently located and classified 9,328 mule deer, as well as 5,689 white-tailed deer during surveys in the Sheridan ...

Mule deer hunters have reason to be optimistic about this fall, and cautious about the future. Mule deer harvest increased by 30% last fall over the 2023 season, and signs look promising that we could ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the number of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Thirty-one years ago, 1,321 mule deer were shot by hunters in Hunting District 502 — a record ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide Sept. 12 whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the ...

Survival rates of the 114 collared adult female mule deer Sawyer studied in the Powder River and Pumpkin Buttes herds were “alarmingly low,” ranging from 66% to 79% annually, below the range-wide ...