Adult female white-tailed deer weigh about 145 pounds, males 170 pounds - the average weight of female and male humans. The biggest white-tailed deer ever harvested was a 500-pound Minnesota buck.

These are the facts. Almost half of the Ashland Ranger District of the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in southeastern Montana has burned in recent wildfires. This has severely impacted mule deer ...

Recent headlines hyping impending human doom caused a decades-old fatal disease of deer and elk that was first discovered on the Colorado State University foothills campus in Fort Collins to go viral.

It’s no secret that mule deer face some serious challenges. Habitat loss, climate change, pressure from predators, chronic wasting disease, and a host of other factors are issues for the West’s most ...

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FARGO — If the cliche in real estate is “location, location, location,” the world of wildlife biology has a similar saw. And guess what, North Dakota deer hunters? You don’t have much anymore. So as ...

MIAMI - Traveling through the lower Florida Keys it is hard to miss Big Pine Key. It is the largest of the lower Keys and is also home to the Key Deer. It's hard to miss the signs as you slowly drive ...

When thin shoots of cheatgrass are the first plants to green up in the spring, mule deer might nibble the tops like any of us might idly crunch last week’s pretzels still sitting on our office desks.