At first glance, North America’s two main deer species—the whitetail and the mule deer —can look very much the same. But there are important differences, and being able to spot them will not only help ...

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 ...

For many, deer will be the largest game animal they’ll see (or hit while driving) in their lifetime. Washington state is home to two species of deer: whitetail deer and its subspecies, Columbian ...

Hunters harvested 1,277 more mule deer in 2021 than in 2020, an increase of 5.1 percent; however, mule deer harvest numbers across the state were still about 8 percent below the 10-year average ...

A trio of deer hunters set out into a canyon deep in Washington state full of deer and without any competing fellow hunters.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Even if you don’t hunt deer, you still might be killing them. That’s one of the conclusions emerging from Saturday’s Western Slope Mule ...

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California wildlife officials have confirmed the state’s first case of COVID-19 in a wild animal, detected in a mule deer killed in 2021 in El Dorado County. The infected deer was killed by a hunter ...