Amateur photographer captures photo of rare three-antlered buck
The 9-point buck has three antlers growing out of its head, from what appears to be three different pedicles.
Whitetails
State Department of Agriculture offers advice to deer hunters, processors
Best management practices to help protect hunters and their families against chronic wasting disease.
The distinctive character of archery season
Deer hunting during archery season combines challenge, work, beauty and a different animal compared to later gun seasons.
Save your deer for the hunt
Be aware of bucks, does crossing the highways, byways of Ohio.
Carcass disposal locations available for firearms deer hunters
Hunters who harvest deer in north-central and southeast Minnesota during firearms deer season will have 26 dumpsters available in a variety of locations to dispose of carcasses after completing deer registration, chronic wasting disease sampling and removing the meat.
Wrath of Mother Nature impacts hunters
For the second year in a row a significant weather event put a dent in the plans of deer hunters, especially those in and around the southern and eastern Adirondacks and beyond – this writer included.
Seems like the whitetail population in Pennsylvania is growing
Reports across the state speak of more sightings of white-tailed deer.
North Dakota sees major hike in available deer hunting licenses
Increases in all categories add up to 65,500 licenses available to hunters this fall, 10,350 more than last year.
North Dakota deer gun hunters find success at 64% clip
And mule deer buck success was 81 percent, and antlerless mule deer was 83 percent.
All deer ‘depopulated’ from CWD-positive Crow Wing County deer farm
All CWD-positive deer farms in the state are now empty.
Wisconsin Senate takes no action on deer carcass removal
The measure would erase a DNR rule that angered hunters who wanted to bring their kills home to a different county.
2018-19 New York state deer hunt: Harvest up 12 percent, no new CWD detections
Twenty-percent increase in antlerless harvest comes after a lower-than-desired antlerless harvest in 2017.
Planting natural vegetation, improving habitat best way to feed deer in winter
Now is a good time to consider species to be planted this spring.
After rare CWD-positive whitetail in North Dakota, a whole lot of negatives, too
Following the positive detection, Game and Fish removed an additional 52 deer for testing. All tested negative.
DNR investigating deer carcasses dumped in Wabasha County
At least seven of the eight deer were bucks; all had their antlers or their antlers and skull plates removed.
Overall Pennsylvania deer harvest largest since 2004-05
The 2018-19 deer harvest topped the previous year’s harvest of 367,159 by about 10 percent.
Shed hunting is a rite of spring
Blogger recounts thrill of discovering a perfect set of whitetail antlers.
Why and when do whitetail bucks shed their antlers?
A chance antler find causes this blogger to investigate the variables affecting antler drop.
Wisconsin hunting ranch deer tests positive for wasting disease
MADISON, Wis. — A deer on a Forest County hunting ranch has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. State agriculture officials issued a news release Monday saying tests confirm the six-year-old whitetail buck was infected. The deer was born on a Marinette County breeding farm and moved to the ranch in 2014. Both the farm and ranch have been quarantined…
Minnesota lawmaker seeks tougher action against deer disease
Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn is sponsoring several bills that target deer farms to try to stop the disease from spreading from captive to wild deer. Another would give the University of Minnesota $1.8 million to develop faster and more sensitive diagnostic tests that farms and regulators could use on live deer and hunters could use to make sure their venison is safe to eat.
Reducing deer numbers won’t be part of CWD pilot project
Too few landowners give permission in Bedford, Blair counties.
DNR identifies presumptive CWD-positive deer in Winona County
During the first special hunt weekend, 157 deer were harvested, with this the only positive.
Total deer harvest down by more than 14,000
Hunters checked 172,040 white-tailed deer throughout Ohio’s 2018-2019 deer seasons, down from 186,247 a year ago.
National whitetail report: Buck harvest up, doe harvest down
One fact of note from the report: Minnesota hunters shot more than a quarter of their entire deer harvest on opening day of their primary firearms season.
CWD confirmed in 14 Iowa deer, including first positive in Dubuque County
Results pending on two suspect samples.
Three presumptive positives for CWD in first special deer hunt
One was a yearling male found in the core of the disease management zone and two were adult males, one found near the Lanesboro hatchery and the other in the southern end of the zone.
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