In the pale dawn light, Valo Velazquez heads into a chill north wind blowing across Mexico’s Sonoran Desert. A wiry, 50ish man with skin the patina of saddle leather, Valo moves quickly across the ...

The Boone & Crockett Club has been keeping meticulous records of the continent's most impressive big game animals for more than a century. In that time, thousands of mulie bucks have made the books, ...

Although the winter of 2022-23 devastated one of Wyoming’s largest mule deer herds, eliminating two-thirds of the population, the catastrophe has provided scientists with a breadth of data that is ...

A mule deer is released wearing a GPS collar. The data from this collar will enable researchers and managers to track the migrations of mule deer and evaluate their habitat use and population ...

GREEN RIVER -- Back in the 1950s and '60s, the management challenge for Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologists was pretty much to ensure enough mule deer were harvested from huge herds, most ...

The ultra-long-distance migrating mule deer known as Deer 255 has died. Researchers tracked her across 3,300 miles since 2016. Here, she is shown with her twin fawns in a fall 2020 migration stopover ...

Wildlife management agencies, hunters and wildlife organizations have done a lot of research, habitat work and plain old head scratching in recent years over what is causing a decline in the number of ...

A partnership of public wildlife agencies and private conservation groups is tackling what many hunters and sportsmen see as the No. 1 wildlife concern: The continued decline of the West's mule deer ...

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 ...