As the forest changes, the deer change their trails. If a big tree falls, the deer travel around it. They don’t usually go ...

Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may wonder why forecast next fall’s deer rut so early? But this time of the year, though the snow is flying, is when I have been asked to bracket the ...

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according to DEEP’s deer factsheet. During the rut, bucks are more active and try to herd does into their territory. A rut has three phases including pre-rut, peak rut, and post-rut. Throughout ...

This is the time of year when Jeff Yost didn’t envy the wildlife officers working in the Denver metro area. Yost worked as a ...

By early to mid fall, mast (like acorns and beechnuts) becomes available to deer. This time of year they’re growing fat stores to survive the rut and looming winter, where deer shed pound after pound.

Winter after winter, the “cruelest month” of March for deer sets the table for hungry coyotes. People are quick to sympathize ...

Michigan’s deer roam wider in spring, leading to 11,619 crashes in spring 2023. Officials urge drivers to stay alert.

After the rut, an “abscission layer” forms between ... You have to first know where the deer travel, where they bed down, and where their food source is. You can only learn this by spending ...