Mule Deer Fawns in Wyoming Range Study Area Nearly Wiped Out
After a winter that saw more than twice the usual snowpack to the Wyoming Range, more bad news surrounding the population of mule deer in the western United States has surfaced. On the heels of news that Idaho’s mule deer fawn survival rate is at it’s lowest levels in 18 years, fawns tracked by […]
More Elk Hunting Opportunities, Fewer Mule Deer Tags in Idaho This Year
This winter was anything but easy on much of the wildlife of the American west. Idaho, including many other western states, instituted supplemental feeding stations to help wildlife such as deer, elk and antelope deal with heavy snowfall. As a natural by-product of the winter weather, Idaho Fish and Game Commissioners set the hunting […]
Texas Man Killed by Captive Deer
The now controversial topic of captive deer farming has taken yet another unfortunate turn after tragedy struck a small Texas community last week. Charles Sean Talley, 50 of Sunset, Texas was discovered by his father Charles Talley Sr., lying in the middle of a deer pen that held fallow deer. Talley Sr. immediately called 911 […]
Staten Island Deer Vasectomy Season Comes to a Close
As ridiculous as the notion might sound, Staten Island’s deer vasectomy season has closed, for now. As the island’s population of bucks breathe a sigh of temporary relief, researchers and biologists from White Buffalo, the organization performing the surgeries, will assess the data collected before commencing the surgical process again in August. So far […]
Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Poaching 200+ Inch Buck
It was December 11, 2016, when an Iowa man spotted the deer of a lifetime in a cornfield. What would have been the conclusion to a perfect, hard-earned hunt, was anything but in this case. Brett Cranston, 41, spotted the deer from his vehicle, and after retrieving his shotgun, fired at the deer from […]
Pennsylvania Records Largest Buck Harvest Since 2002
Pennsylvania’s buck harvest increased 9 percent, and the overall deer harvest was up 6 percent, in the 2016-17 seasons, which closed in January, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported today. Hunters harvested an estimated 333,254 deer in 2016-17 – an increase of about 6 percent compared to the 2015-16 harvest of 315,813. Of those, 149,460 […]
Two Charged in Heinous North Dakota Poaching Incident
A disturbing video surfaced in the fall of 2016 as a group of young men were videotaped dragging a deer from North Dakota’s Cannonball River and violently stabbing and suffocating it to death. The video depicts six or seven men participating in the unsettling event which sparked outrage across both the hunting and non-hunting […]
Delaware’s 2016/17 Deer Harvest Sets New All-Time High Record
Delaware hunters harvested 14,742 deer during the 2016/17 hunting season, surpassing 2015/16’s record of 14,681 deer taken, DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife announced today. This season marks the seventh time within the last 12 years the deer harvest has exceeded 14,000 since Delaware’s first modern-day deer season was held in 1954. Sussex County […]
Ohio DNR’s ‘Operation North Coast’ Results in 55 Charges, Jail Time for Poachers
Concluding in March 2016, a long-term investigation known as Operation North Coast targeted poachers and other wildlife law violators throughout four northwest Ohio counties. More than 45 state wildlife officers and investigators vigorously executed search warrants and investigated dozens of suspects, resulting in 55 charges for violations spread across 22 suspects in total. The […]
Another Captive Deer in Pennsylvania Tests Positive for CWD
A second deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in just a three month period in the state of Pennsylvania. The fatal disease was once again discovered within one of the state’s captive breeding facilities, which have come under fire as of recent. As concerns continue to mount surrounding the disease, agencies, hunters […]