During winter, food becomes scarce and snow covers much of the vegetation that deer typically consume. To cope, white-tailed deer shift their diets from green plants to woody browse. They feed on ...

Starvation, although probably always causing some mortality even during moderate Adirondack winters, may cause massive mortality when deep snow cover exceeds 100 days (as was the case in the winters ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

Temperature, rainfall, snow and extreme weather events are ... sika deer, fallow deer, white-tailed deer, mule deer, caribou and reindeer. Their analysis of 218 articles summarizes general trends ...

above average for mule deer and below average for white-tailed deer. Snow levels were high enough to make high-country travel difficult for hunters, but not enough to concentrate elk on winter ranges.

Reindeer are members of the deer family, but several features set them apart from their white-tailed cousins found ... hooves are adapted for padding over snow. Members of both sexes also sport ...

Unlike moose with their long legs, he said, white-tailed deer aren't built for deep snow, so when there's a lot of snow, mortality rates are high. And since northern New Brunswick historically ...

The DNR's winter severity index was developed mostly to gauge impacts on deer in the northern part of the state. Here's how 2024-25 stacks up.