Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. There are several places to lay blame for the mule deer population decline in south-central and ...

Wildlife biologists with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks conduct aerial surveys for mule deer every spring to assess population trends and fawn recruitment. In south-central Montana—FWP’s Region 5—biol ...

Between 2020 and 2024, the mule deer harvest by nonresident hunters fell from more than 16,100 to around 11,300 as Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks attempted to stem the famed animal’s population ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas hunter Derrick Ratcliff with an eastern Montana mule deer buck. It's hard to excite a Texas deer hunter about Montana's ...

Mule deer populations are stable to slightly decreasing and still down from long term averages. Hunting for mule deer bucks is by permit-only in several hunting districts. White-tailed deer ...

After three years of extreme drought in parts of north-central Montana, biologists are hopeful that recent significant rain ...