No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

Across North America, you really only run into three main kinds of wild deer, and once you know what... The post The 3 types ...

The crunch of something stepping on dry leaves catches your ear. The noise stops for a minute, then resumes. You turn your head as slowly as possible so as to be imperceptible in movement. It’s autumn ...

An ongoing course project led by experts in the Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management will provide researchers with key data to assess populations, evaluate nutrition ...

Ohio’s white-tailed deer might seem like an obvious state symbol, but that familiarity is exactly why it works. Few animals have influenced daily life in this state as consistently or for as long.

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Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Given their abundance in American backyards, ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago. While they ...

Arkansas has a population of 1 million white-tailed deer. The signature of Jim Guy Tucker on Act 892 created a permanent paradox with the state’s hunting economy. The official state mammal remains ...

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