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Vulnerable caribou and moose populations display varying responses to mountain pine beetle outbreaks and management 2025 Alberta, The Journal of Wildlife
... . Moose displayed sex‐specific responses to pine beetle infestations and associated management: females avoided pine beetle‐affected areas but selected burned sites year‐round, while males showed the opposite pattern. These findings suggest that pine beetle disturbances may negatively affect caribou and female moose winter habitat availability while simultaneously enhancing conditions for male
moose ...
Want to Help Increase Utah's Deer Population? Bring Your Ideas to Upcoming DWR Meetings July 18, 2025 Outdoor Wire
... The 2024 post-hunting season population estimate was approximately 295,200 deer — 73% of the long-term management objective of 404,900 deer. [Factors reducing populations]: Extreme weather and precipitation (ongoing drought or really heavy snowfall during the winter — both of which have occurred in the Utah in the last five years). Predator balance. The quality and quantity of available habitat (which can be affected by weather as well). Vehicle collisions. Fences and deer migration disruptions ..,
Missouri Department of Conservation enforces fines for feeding deer in certain counties July 17, 2025 KY3
... Hunters and landowners in 73% of Missouri’s counties are under a CWD management zone... because putting feed and mineral for deer artificially congregates them. It puts them into closer proximity with each other and increases the risk of transmitting Chronic Wasting Disease ...
Mississippi deer poachers ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in Southern Illinois July 17, 2025 WPSD Local 6
... five men from Mississippi were sentenced after admitting to using spotlights to illegally hunt white-tailed deer ... “Targeting trophy deer under the cover of night, across multiple counties, and transporting them across state lines reflects a deliberate disregard for wildlife laws and the ecological balance we work tirelessly to protect...
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks applications for wildlife crossings July 17, 2025
Baker City Herald
... The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has grants to help build bridges, overpasses and other structures that make it safer for wildlife to cross highways in the state. The agency’s Conservation and Recreation Fund is accepting letters of interest for its wildlife crossing infrastructure grants...
Rescue bid for deer trapped in solar farm July 17, 2025 United Kingdom, BBC on MSN
... Video footage shows one of the animals headbutting the fence hard before running back among the solar panels...
Montana Considers Killing Nearly Half Of Its Wolf Population July 16, 2025 Cowboy State Daily
... it would cut Montana’s wolf population roughly in half, leaving about 550 of the predators, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) reports ... Northwest Montana is densely populated with wolves and is also “in a part of the state where people are clearly frustrated by (lower) deer and elk populations,” ...
Wyoming approves major hunting regulation changes for 2025 July 16, 2025 Torrington Telegram
... In Hunt Area 84, Type 1, the elk quota increased from 50 in 2024 to 100 for the 2025 season. In Hunt Area 84, Type 6, the elk quota increased from 350 in 2024 to 400 for the 2025 season... House Bill 200 increases the special elk license fee from $1,283 to $1,965 ...
Penticton council votes to look into official urban deer response committee, at some cost to the city July 15, 2025 British Columbia, Castanet.net
... Cranbrook tried a relocation program that was only 50 per cent effective at keeping the deer from returning to their original community or a neighbouring community. Relocation is no longer an option at this time, due to the risk of spreading Chronic Wasting Disease...
The Deer Rut in Massachusetts Brings the Wild to Your Backyard July 15, 2025 AOL
... MassWildlife’s Deer and Moose Project Leader, says, “It varies across the state, but the rut pretty much takes place from November 6th-20th. Peak activity starts around Veterans Day on November 11th...
Thinning restores ungulate foraging habitat in historically logged forests July, 2025 Ecological Applications
... The coastal rainforests of western North America were fundamentally transformed by commercial logging throughout the 20th century, resulting in depauperate second-growth forests that provide limited understory production and foraging habitat for herbivores. The Tongass National Forest in Alaska, USA, is the largest contiguous tract of coastal temperate rainforest in the world, but nearly 200,000 ha of second-growth forest have created a need to restore understory plant communities and foraging habitat for ungulates like Sitka black-tailed deer ... our results show that precommercial thinning is a valuable management tool that increases forage and deer habitat use in second-growth coastal rainforests...
Distribution of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in tissues from experimentally exposed coyotes (Canis latrans) 2025 PloS one
... coyote (Canis latrans), which has been previously shown to pass transmission-relevant prion titers in their feces for at least three days after ingesting prion-positive brain material. The current study followed up on these findings and evaluated the distribution of prions in multiple tissues from the same coyotes. Our results show that prions persist in the digestive tract of prion-exposed coyotes five days after exposure...
Elk and Deer Habituate to Stationary Deterrents in an Agricultural Landscape 2025 Ecology and Evolution
...our results indicate that recordings of humans shouting provided the most salient acoustic deterrent for these ungulates and that acoustic deterrents were enhanced with lights, but habituation to our stationary deterrents occurred rapidly, especially in proximity to human activity...
Pennsylvania identifies CWD case near Allegheny County July 14, 2025 CIDRAP - University of Minnesota
... Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been identified in Armstrong County, posing a risk of spread to suburban and urban areas with high deer densities, given the location northeast of Pittsburgh... “This is the first time CWD has been detected in such a populated area,” ..,
Audio Below: There is a growing coalition of cities and townships in metro Detroit that have taken action to curb deer populations in their communities. Farmington Hills is one of the cities leading this effort, with the city council recently approving organized deer culls. The resolution (https://www.fhgov.com/government-business/...) , which allows sharpshooters to shoot and kill deer in suburban areas where overpopulation is a problem, also includes safety provisions and directs harvested venison to be donated to food banks. Bryan Farmer, deputy director of the city of Farmington Hills Special Services Department, joined The Metro to talk more about the resolution. Then, Cervid and Wildlife Interactions Unit Supervisor at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Chad Stewart, joined the conversation to help us understand what's behind the deer uptick in metro Detroit's suburbs. - Jul 14, 2025 The Metro, Michigan
A hedonic analysis of chronic wasting disease's effect on hunting lease prices 2025 Forest Policy and Economics
... CWD presence was associated with a 22 % reduction in lease price. Ripple effects of lost revenue due to CWD on the regional economy can be substantial...
CWD threat nears Henry County July 14, 2025 Iowa, Southeast Iowa Union
... Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological illness affecting deer and elk, is drawing growing concern from local conservation officials after confirmed cases surfaced just north of Burlington...
Deer urine OK’d for use by Pennsylvania hunters after testing flap: What the science says July 13, 2025 Lehigh Valley Live
... Stripping out the testing rule “does not make any sense,” Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-Lehigh/Northampton, said on the Senate floor in June. Boscola stressed that dozens of other states either ban the use of deer urine as a lure due to CWD concerns, or enforce stringent testing rules...
Twig age 2.0: A novel and reliable method to track variation in ungulate browsing over species, sites and time July, 2025, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025
... Twig ages provide a powerful tool to sensitively track variation in local deer impacts over time and across sites and habitats. Its efficiency means forest and wildlife managers can rapidly expand deer impact monitoring programs at low
cost. Applying this method broadly over successive years should soon identify adjusted twig age thresholds for predicting successful sapling recruitment and tree regeneration...
Always Deer Season: Range conditions improve slightly July 12, 2025 Texas, Longview News-Journal
... Following an 11-year high fawn recruitment of 47 percent in 2024, the Texas deer population has climbed to 5 million white-tailed deer...
Whitetail forecast July 12, 2025 Texas, Lufkin Daily News
... Korzekwa says Texas hunters enjoyed a 67% success rate last season with a total harvest of approximately 837,000 animals (51% bucks) and 49% does. He expects trends in harvest success and hunter densities should be similar in 2025. Total harvest numbers are expected to be average or above average this season ...
Baltimore City gathers public input on deer management amid growing concerns Ju;y 11, 2025 Maryland, WBAL
... Currently, 48% of deer survey respondents want a decrease in the deer population, while 43% want it to stay the same. Options for reducing the population include nonlethal and lethal measures...
Helicopter trip finds endangered mammals thriving on Chile peak. ‘Hopeful sign’ July 11, 2025 Miami Herald on MSN
... On the coast stood a huemul deer... Due to habitat loss, hunting and competition from invasive animals, the species has lost "more than 99%" of its population and is endangered with only about 1,500 surviving deer...
Gov. Shapiro repeals longstanding ban on hunting on Sundays throughout state July 10, 2025 Pennsylvania, NBC10 Philadelphia
... Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, on Wednesday, signed a bill into law that repeals a ban on hunting throughout the Commonwealth on Sundays. Previously, hunting was only permitted three Sundays a year...
Oklahoma Celebrates Second-Highest Deer Harvest on Record, with with 128,000 Deer Taken in 2024-2025 Season July 9, 2025 Oklahoma, Hoodline
... ODWC's Facebook post states, "More than 128,000 deer were harvested in Oklahoma during the 2024-2025 season — the second most on record." ...
Two men facing charges for illegally killing seven white-tailed deer in North Idaho July 9, 2025 KXLY9h
... Two St. Maries men are facing eight felony charges after illegally killing seven mature white-tailed deer bucks in north Idaho... Three of the bucks were classified as trophy white-tailed deer, which carries higher penalties ...
The 'Why?' of Big Game Changes July 9, 2025 Nebraska, Nebraskaland Magazine
... The number of antlerless deer permits was reduced for the fourth straight year for 2025 ... Total deer harvest across all seasons in 2024-25 was the lowest since 1993, and the hunter success rate of 34.6 percent was the second-lowest on record, two numbers that are telling when it comes to the deer population..,
Meet the Axis Deer – The Invasive Species Now Roaming the U.S. July 9, 2025 AOL
... the axis deer originated on the Indian subcontinent... For various reasons, humans have carried the axis deer to such faraway places as Australia, North America, and even the Hawai’ian Islands... axis deer are becoming threatened in their native range... The first axis deer arrived on the continent in Texas in 1932 ...While a large portion of the state’s population remains contained, more than 10,000 axis deer are found throughout Texas...
Pa. set to enact Sunday hunting law after intrigue over deer urine July 9, 2025 Pennsylvania, PennLive on MSN
... As originally written, the bill that passed the state House required such urine to be tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD) ... But that urine testing requirement was taken out of the bill by a Senate committee ... game commission biologists who “told us that they weren’t convinced that CWD traveled in urine,” at least not to the extent that mass testing was warranted ...
Iron Mountain, IM receives veterinarian’s plans for managing deer pen July 9, 2025 Michigan, The Daily News
... The penned herd has been a park attraction since at least the 1940s ... During the council’s discussion, Mayor Dale Alessandrini said Friends of Iron Mountain City Park may cover half the cost of the improvements needed to keep the herd ... Wehner [veterinarian] recommends culling aged and infirmed deer on a regular basis if the city decides to keep the herd...
Outcry causes Wyoming to back off plan to curb 'landowner tag' advantages July 8, 2025 WyoFile
... Those proposed regulation changes are all no longer being recommended, according to a “public comment summary and response” memo that agency staff sent the Game and Fish Commission on June 19. The memo shows that about 70% of the 380 comments the department received opposed the proposed changes. Just 9% of respondents stated support...
Washington Game Management Plan now available for public comment July 7, 2025 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
... The public can review the SEPA determination and draft Game Management Plan on WDFW’s website. The public may submit comments online or by emailing GameManagementPlan@publicinput.com. Comments must be received by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. WDFW staff write the Game Management Plan with guidance and final approval from the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. It is not a regulatory document, and its development is not a rule making process. It does, however, provide guidance to conserve game species ...
Rare endangered deer have been spotted in southern Patagonia July 7, 2025 Yahoo
... Magallanes Region, Chile ... The huemul deer has lost 99% of its population due to hunting and habitat loss ...
Migratory routes are inherited primarily from mother in a terrestrial herbivore Wyoming, Current Biology, 2025
... we evaluate whether daughters inherit migratory routes from their mothers by following 16 mother-daughter pairs of mule deer ... Adult routes for two-thirds of daughters overlapped with their mother’s route, suggesting that they inherited migratory routes from their mothers. The adult routes for the remaining daughters, however, bore little or no similarity to their mother’s routes ...
ODFW schedules online meetings to discuss proposed 2026 changes to mule deer hunting July 7. 2025 Oregon Hermiston Herald
... In many areas, mule deer live in a different area during hunting seasons than during the agency’s annual winter population count ... Due to the discrepancy, ODFW biologists believe the agency is allocating hunting tag numbers based on faulty numbers, Smith said...
Chronic Wasting Disease Continues Spread in Pennsylvania Deer July 5, 2025 Lancaster Farming
... The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab on March 28 after it was submitted for testing on Jan. 20... the deer was moved to the Wayne County facility from Huntingdon County on Oct. 25, 2021...
Colorado wolf reintroduction makes no sense July 5, 2025 TheFencePost.com
... why the decision to reintroduce wolves was put to the voters of Colorado makes absolutely no sense. What does the pubic know about wolves. Ranchers are now left with the detrimental consequences of Colorado voters majority vote ... Now moose, deer, antelope are all in jeopardy along with the cattle we raise...
Differences between the white-tailed and mule deer chronic wasting disease agents after passage through sheep July, 2025 - Frontiers in Veterinary Science
... This data suggests that WTD CWD is unlikely to present a major risk to sheep but could be transmissible back to the cervid population. However, MD sheep CWD could present risk to both the cervid and sheep population...
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Fawn Rescue on the Shores of Conesus Lake July 15, 2025 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Region 8 wildlife staff responded to a call on the shore of Conesus Lake about a fawn that was stuck in a culvert. Upon arrival, the biologists noted that the plastic of the culvert was slippery with moss and the fawn could not get out. Just up a hill, a doe watched as its fawn was quickly removed. The two reunited and then wandered back into the woods together.
As a reminder, anyone who encounters a wild animal that is injured or obviously orphaned should call a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Licensed wildlife rehabilitators are the only people legally allowed to receive and treat distressed wildlife, and have the experience, expertise, and facilities to successfully treat and release wild animals.
Our results show that while in the Late Pleistocene gray brocket deer corresponded to up to 18% of 38 individuals, in the Holocene they represented at least 82% of 78 individuals. We interpret this change in frequency as a considerable increase in abundance in the surroundings of the cave, after excluding major taphonomical biases. The causes for this phenomenon are uncertain but could have involved a surplus of food availability and predation release due to the late Quaternary extinction event.
Firefighters spring into action to rescue bewildered baby deer from raging flames: 'It was so tiny' July 10, 2025 Oregon, The Cool Down
... a small fawn, alone, crying in the thick smoke ... ran toward the firefighters... brought to a nearby clearing, far from the fire's edge, and released ...
Lifeguards rescue a deer from Flagler Beach waters July 8, 2025 Florida, WESH on MSN.com on MSN
... Witnesses said the deer had been in the water for approximately an hour and a half ... The lifeguards managed to straddle the deer across a rescue board and bring it back to land. Although they were trying to focus on getting the deer to safety, they were still concerned about the sharks... [video below]
Albino deer fawn rescued in Northern California dies from injuries July 7, 2025 CBS News on MSN
... Rescuers said the fawn was found stuck in a fence, leaving the animal with serious injuries ...
White Moose Spotted in Vermont Forest, Sparks Wildlife Frenzy July 5, 2025 MSN
... It was a pure white moose slowly moving through the birch trees ... leading some to nickname it the “Ghost of the Green Mountains.” ... most likely has leucism ...
Fawn Rescued from Sinkhole in Western Washington by WDFW Officers July 3, 2025 Dailyfly News
... The fawn was wet but otherwise unharmed. Once released, it ran to its mother and sibling and immediately began nursing...
CCTV+: Global Audience Captivated by Fierce "Milu Deer King" Rivalries in China's Wetland July 2, 2025 China, The Manila Times
... Millions worldwide tuned in on June 28 for the captivating 2025 Milu Deer King Competition in Yancheng City of east China's Jiangsu Province ... showcased the intense natural battles where wild male milu deer (Père David's deer) clash for dominance and the right to lead their herds...
This Columbus yard is a fairy tale when 'Snow White' calls for her herd of deer June 30, 2025 Georgia, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
... Every afternoon around 4 p.m. Susan Massey feeds deer in the backyard of her Columbus, Georgia home. “Over the years, they’ve gotten so used to me. When I call them, they’ll all come running,” ... Massey fed them carrots and apples — which they didn’t like — and soon upgraded to the horse food they currently enjoy...
Video Below: Each year shed hunters take to Montana’s wilderness in search of antlers left behind by deer, moose, elk and other large animals. Montana Kaimin video journalist James Celano follows a passionate hunter and investigates the ecological impact of the sport. - June 26, 2025
What Deer See and Why It Matters June 26, 2025 Montana Outdoor
...Deer don’t see color like we do—they’re basically red-green color-blind but have sharp vision for blues and yellows. That blaze orange vest, to a deer, it looks like a dull gray ...
Stealth and survival define the early life of white-tailed fawns June 26, 2025 The Berkshire Eagle
... Newborn fawns do not have active scent glands, which means that they are as “invisible” to their olfactory-dependent mammalian predators as they can possibly be. The female deer understand this, so they actively stay away from their babies for as long as possible; only visiting them four times per day for nursing...
Video Below: June 25, 2025
Deer with PVC pipe wrapped around neck rescued in north June 24, 2025 Georgia Atlanta News First
... potted the pipe around the young deer’s neck nearly three weeks ago ... crews were eventually able to tranquilize the deer long enough to cut the pipe free... pipe came from a poorly constructed deer feeder ...
Video Below: Kansas game wardens share photo of very rare albino fawn. Seeing an all-white animal in the wild may make some people think they've seen a ghost. - June 18, 2025
Bloomfield Township officer saves fawn drowning in residential pool June 17, Michiganm WXYZ
... a young fawn that was drowning under a pool cover ... “I had to swim under the cover to get to the fawn who was about to give up,” ... The fawn's mother stood nearby, watching ... The following morning, the homeowners sent Summerfield a photo showing the fawn reunited with its mother...
Video Below: A FOX 2 viewer shared a video of an albino deer, this time in Jefferson County, Mo. - June 10, 2025
First photos show returning Greenwich Park deer June 8, 2025 United Kingdom, BBC on MSN
... Greenwich Park's herd of eight fallow and red deer returned in May after being relocated to Richmond Park four years ago so they were not disturbed during the building and renovation of community facilities....
Injured Doe Found Impaled by Blow Darts in Southwestern Washington; WDFW Seeks Information June 5, 2025 Washington, Dailyfly News
... an adult doe was found severely injured with two blow darts lodged in its throat ... Due to the extent of its injuries, the animal was humanely euthanized...
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