Between 400,000 and 450,000 mule deer call Colorado home. This makes it the state with the highest concentration of recorded mule deer. As a result of shifts in habitat, predators, disease, hunting ...

Deer are abundant in almost every U.S. state, inhabiting forests, grasslands, prairies, and coastal areas. There are several species of deer throughout the country, although white-tailed deer are the ...

“Prevalence is more pronounced for mule deer in the northern hunting districts that border Canada.” Following the latest sampling, northern hunting district (HD) 600 has a prevalence rate of ...

Look for gentle slopes that face south or west… Most years, big mule deer are going to drop their antlers during the last couple weeks of January. Smaller bucks may hold theirs longer, into March. But ...

Cementum annuli costs money but it’s more accurate for deer when they get past three years old.” Mule deer hunting tends to be more heavily regulated than whitetail hunting. This means many mule deer ...

A man and a woman from Wasa were slapped with a combined $6,000 penalty and each received a hunting ban for poaching a mule deer near Cranbrook. The investigation was initiated by the BC COS on Nov.

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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has confirmed two cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer – one in LaGrange County and the other in Posey County. Michigan recently had ...

In the mountain west, mule deer typically shed from January into March, but elk (which we will bring into the mix here because shed hunting for their antlers is so popular) shed later, typically ...

At the 2025 Western Hunting and Conservation Expo in Utah on the weekend, hunters paid US$50,000 each for moose and elk licences, while the mule deer licence was the most coveted and sold for US ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post was first published on March 30, 2022. The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists ...