As recently as 2020, Wyoming was issuing nearly 500 licenses in the Project Herd’s core hunt unit, 157. Nearly 60% of hunters actively used their tags, and they managed to kill an estimated 201 mule ...

CHEYENNE — A measure to separate mule deer hunting licenses from whitetail deer licenses made it past a panel of lawmakers Tuesday. The Senate Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources ...

Unlike the winter of 2022-2023, when mule deer were starving and dying by the thousands in Wyoming, this year the herd is ...

The ultra-long-distance migrating mule deer known as Deer 255 has died. Researchers tracked her across 3,300 miles since 2016. Here, she is shown with her twin fawns in a fall 2020 migration stopover ...

In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A new study authored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department finds hunting greater numbers of male deer can slow the spread of chronic wasting disease.