The Catalina Island Conservancy says its deer-hunting plan is necessary to replenish the native vegetation on the island. However, as one might expect, the plan is facing criticism.

Invasive mule deer are pushing native plants to the brink on Catalina Island. Officials want to hunt animals from helicopters.

Some residents of Santa Catalina Island, California, oppose a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to curb the deer population that is devastating ecosystem.

Mule deer face a lot of challenges, but groups like the MDF are supplying money, manpower, and science to help this Western icon thrive.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a series of online public meetings July 10 and 16 to explain and collect ...

Historically these seasons extended into November when the rut was in progress. Hunting mature mule deer bucks when their minds were on does made them more susceptible to being harvested.

Mule deer were introduced to the island in the early 1930s with a goal of increasing wildlife and as a hunting resource.

The contours of the island were also seen as prime ground for hunting, and 18 mule deer from California forests were introduced nearly a century ago.

Herds in the Upper Shoshone, Shoshone River and Clark Fork areas have recovered, and there are now more of the iconic Western deer on the landscape.

A Week In Hunting Camp: The Mule Deer Highway Every trip to camp starts with the drive—with slowly leaving your day-to-day life in the rearview and dreaming of what’s ahead ...

Ravalli County has two trophy mule deer hunting areas that thousands of hunters seek to draw a permit for each year. In Hunting District 261, 2,185 hunters put in for 35 permits last year.