As winter envelops Michigan with snow and frigid temperatures, white-tailed deer utilize a complex array of survival strategies to endure the season's harsh conditions.

After snowfall, the winter diet consists of woody browse - the twigs and stems of seedlings, saplings and shrubs. White tailed deer prefer white cedar, birches, aspens, American yew, hemlock, maples, ...

Hunters across Ohio checked 238,137 white-tailed deer during the 2024-25 hunting season that concluded in early February, ...

It’s still a little early for biologists to read the tea leaves and know how the 2024-25 winter survival will affect this fall’s hunts, so stayed tuned for more on that down the road.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will open the winter firearm deer hunting ... a valid license can pursue both sika and white-tailed deer during this season.

If left unchecked, both overabundant white-tailed deer populations and invasive shrubs like Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera ...

Pittsburgh Parks officials announced Monday the conclusion of the 2024-25 Deer Management Program, which aimed to reduce the ...

Hunter success for antlered white-tailed deer in 2024 was 49% and 44% for antlerless ... In addition to harvest rates and winter aerial surveys, Game and Fish staff monitor other population ...

A white-tailed deer browses Amur honeysuckle ... like Burning Bush and Winter Creeper, to thrive.” Forest regeneration failure means insufficient juvenile tree density to replace canopy trees.

"Control of only invasive shrubs will reduce native cover and not improve tree regeneration," says David Gorchov, Ph.D., and Miami University (Ohio) biology professor. "Managing only deer will ...