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 ...

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

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.

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

(The Conversation) – Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a ...

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 ...

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.

In mild conditions but with no snow, hunters registered 89,203 white-tailed deer over the opening weekend of the 2024 Wisconsin nine-day gun deer hunting season, a 2% decrease from last year and 5 ...

The conditions, especially two very mild winters in a row, pave the way for continued population increases of white-tailed deer in ... 65 years the DNR has used snow and temperature readings ...