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Richland County Deer Farm Confirmed with CWD November 17, 2025 Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
... a Richland County deer farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD)... The positive result came from a 3-year-old buck. The premises is quarantined, where it will remain while DATCP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarians and staff conduct the epidemiological investigation..,
Deer adapt even as development claims their habitat November 16, 2025 South Carolina, The Post and Courier
... “Our deer population peaked around the turn of the century. We're probably carrying about 30 percent fewer deer than we were then ..." Charles Ruth, Big Game Coordinator for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, said South Carolina has a deer population of about 700,000.... reasons for the change in the state's deer population — aggressive female deer harvest, changes to habitat and losses of recruitment of fawns due to predation by coyotes...
Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study 2025 Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
... Camera trap distance sampling (CTDS) can estimate densities of multiple species at a time and has been used successfully in a small number of studies... The 4-month survey generated 51,447 photos of wild mammal species. Data were sufficient for us to use CTDS to estimate the densities of eight mammal species ... Taking the United Kingdom as a case study, our study highlights the
potential for CTDS to be used on a national scale, although the scale of the task suggests that it would need to be integrated with a citizen science approach...
Missouri deer season opens with mandatory CWD testing November 16, 2025 KYTV on MSN
... Hunters in certain counties across Missouri are required to bring their deer in for sampling during opening weekend... the Chronic Wasting Disease testing station ... “We’re drawing, we’re extracting the lymph nodes from the neck. The reason is that it is one of the earliest places where this disease appears in the deer...
This is why you’re seeing so many dead deer on Pennsylvania roads now November 15, 2025 PennLive on MSN
... Lau said the commission’s deer population estimates are stable in 20 of the state’s 22 Wildlife Management Units. The only units where the deer population trend is increasing are in 2A and 2B — both in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania... “That doesn’t mean there aren’t increases in population on a smaller scale within the WMU, just that the six-year trend continues to reflect a stable, as opposed to an increasing, population,” ..,
Hunter banned after CDFW recognizes 'distinctive' antlers in Madera County shop November 14, 2025 California, CBS47 and KSEE24
... They recognized the antlers from a buck that was photographed in Yosemite Lakes Park, a residential community near Coarsegold where hunting is prohibited. However, attached to the mount was an A19 Archery/X10 tag claiming the deer had been taken in Inyo County near Mount Whitney — more than 100 air miles away...
Chronic wasting disease detected on Spokane Reservation November 14, 2025 Washington, The Spokesman-Review
... A white-tailed deer on the Spokane Indian Reservation has tested positive for chronic wasting disease... killed by a hunter in late October ... the fifth time an animal killed in Washington has tested positive ..,
Oklahoma AG warns wildlife agency against prosecuting Tribal hunters November 14, 2025 News9.com
... Oklahoma Attorney General challenges state wildlife agency’s policy of prosecuting tribal members for hunting and fishing on reservation lands, citing legal and sovereignty concerns... its policy of pursuing criminal charges against tribal members for hunting and fishing in Indian Country is unlawful and must be rescinded...
Ohio reduces deer hunting limits in several counties for 2025-26 season November 13, 2025 Cleveland 19 News
... The limit reduction is due to an outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD)... Beginning Dec. 1, the opening day of the seven-day deer gun season, the bag limit for Athens, Meigs, and Washington counties is reduced to one deer...
Indiana deer collisions spike, costing drivers over $103 million in 2023 November 13, 2025 WBIW
... The total number of deer-vehicle collisions across Indiana increased significantly in 2023, rising to 16,951 from 15,854 the previous year... data crucial for both road safety analyses and the DNR's population analysis ..,
It's “Deer Season” on Tennessee Roads, Too November 13, 2025 TN.gov
... In 2024, there were ... 8,036 deer-related crashes statewide ... Drivers can view deer-crash data by county on the Department’s Deer-Involved Crashes Dashboard/....
DNR reports Allegan County’s first CWD-positive wild deer November 13, 2025 Michigan DNR
... Allegan is now the 17th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An emaciated doe reported by residents of Leighton Township recently tested positive for the disease... The declining health of this 1.5-year-old doe was first noted by private landowners in late summer. In late September, the DNR was contacted ..,
The 2025 deer hunt begins this weekend. What to know ahead of firearm season. November 13, 2025 Michigan, mlive on MSN
... So far in 2025, epizootic hemorrhagic disease has been confirmed in wild deer in at least 16 counties in southern Michigan ... The DNR ... encourage hunters in areas that were highly affected by EHD to consider modifying their harvest plans to reduce hunting pressure while the deer population recovers...
Opinion: Swedish symposium shows how poor Ontario’s moose management is November 12, 2025 Canada, SooToday
... There are three major differences in planning moose harvests. Scandinavians manage based on pre-hunt population structure, while we manage on post-hunt (mid-winter) populations. They plan their harvests on calf production while we focus on total population size, and they use hunter observations while we use aerial inventories. ... A paper by Christer Kalen, chair of the symposium, explained how hunter information, as “citizen scientists”, can be used to determine population size. The technique could save Ontario hunters more than $500,000 annually in aerial inventory costs ...
DWR to conduct mandatory CWD testing for deer killed in some counties Saturday November 12, 2025 Virginia, WDBJ
... for Chronic Wasting Disease. The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources will be conducting mandatory CWD sampling in six counties across the state, including Patrick, Roanoke, Smyth, Tazewell, and Wythe counties, plus Shenandoah ... sampling in areas where more data is needed or where CWD has recently been discovered ...
Deer antlers get 3D scanning treatment for hunters on opening day November 12, 2025 Michigan, Fox 17
... using advanced 3D scanning technology at Barb's Deer Processing to measure and score deer antlers with unprecedented accuracy... Hunters who get their antlers scanned will receive both an accurate score and digital images of their trophy...
Melanistic Whitetails: How One State Dominates the Whole Population November 11, 2025 Texas, North American Whitetail
... a whitetail whose coat is solid black, or at least so abnormally dark ... This genetically controlled trait is called melanism ... dark deer are most often observed in a narrow band running from a few miles north of Austin, Texas, to the northernmost suburbs of San Antonio. This zone stretches 100 miles or so ... Overall, 8.5 percent of the deer seen on the study area’s 11 census lines were recorded as being abnormally dark...
Northwoods Experience: 2025 MN Firearms Deer Hunting Season Underway November 11, 2025 Minnesota, Lakeland PBS
... “Deer population is doing well, 1.3 to 1.4 million deer in the state of Minnesota,” stated Klemek [ Northwest Regional Wildlife Manager]... Hunting season can bring a major economic boost to Minnesota, where hunters are traveling, eating at local restaurants, and bringing more business to the meat processing industry, and the 400,000-plus licenses purchased each year help the DNR put money back into the state’s natural resources..,
Deer Hunting Becoming A Thing Of The Past On Minnesota's Iron Range November 11, 2025 KDHL
... Conservation Officer Troy Fondie out of Orr reported ... Lack of deer, diminished interest in deer hunting, and lack of youth hunters have set the stage for changes to northern MN deer hunting ... cold, harsh winters, predators, and several years of heavy snow have done their damage to the population in Northeastern Minnesota..,
Auburn’s Whitetail Deer Lab: A leader in wildlife study and conservation November 11, 2025 Alabama, The Auburn Plainsman
... Founded in 2007 near Camp Hill, Alabama, the facility spans nearly 430 acres. Surrounded by an eight-foot-tall fence, the Deer Lab is home to around 100 adult deer at any one time. “We constructed it with the intent of trying to understand reproductive success in whitetail deer,” ... To learn more about the deer lab, visit deerlab.auburn.edu...
A lawsuit challenges an Alaska program that allows killing bears as a way to rebuild a caribou herd November 10, 2025 Alaska, Big Rapids Pioneer
... The herd, named for its traditional calving ground, peaked in number at around 190,000 in the late 1990s and had provided an important source of food for subsistence hunters from dozens of communities. But the herd's numbers began falling, down to about 13,000 caribou by 2019, and hunting has not been allowed since 2021, according to the department...
Lack of fall grass could lead to widespread deer deaths if winter is harsh, biologist fears November 11, 2025 Oregon, Baker City Herald
... The amount of nutritious new grass sprouting on the rangelands where deer spend most of the winter can be a literal lifesaver for the animals ... “On 90% of the winter range we don’t have anything,” Ratliff said, referring to newly sprouted grass. “It is going to be a dismal winter for deer.” ..,
Feds change course on wolf recovery November 10, 2025 Montana Public Radio
... The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week reversed course and announced it will no longer issue a nationwide recovery plan for gray wolves. The agency said wolves have recovered to the point of no longer needing to be listed under the Endangered Species Act....
Deer hunting numbers trending upward at start of Minnesota firearms season November 10, 2025 MPR News
... they’re on track to outpace recent seasons... License sales are up 1-2 percent, too ... As of late last week, the DNR had sold about 275,000 firearm and 100,000 archery licenses...
The Ecological Impacts of Large-Carnivore Recovery in North America. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 56, 337–363. 2025
Over the past five decades, gray wolves, pumas, black bears, and grizzly bears have made significant spatial and numerical recoveries across North America ... While large carnivores are widely believed to reduce ungulate populations and promote plant growth through trophic cascades, our synthesis shows that their impacts are complex, context dependent, and shaped by multispecies interactions, alternative stable states, and especially, human activities...
Maryland Reports 2025 Early Deer Season Results November 10, 2025 Maryland News - Maryland.gov
... “Many areas saw an abundant acorn crop, which likely reduced deer movements, making deer less visible and harder to hunt,” said Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife and Heritage Service Director, Karina Stonesifer. “Though harvest is down compared to 2024, our 2025 harvest seems to be tracking close to what we have experienced in past seasons.” ...
Maine farmers plagued by destructive deer get new option to hunt them November 10, 2025 Bangor Daily News
... a new state program that allows farmers to increase hunting on their land by giving them extra free permits to use or distribute ... Populations are generally increasing because of milder winters, especially in northern Maine ..,
Deer collisions rise in November — here's how to steer clear November 10, 2025 Ohio, Dayton Daily News
... According to the Ohio State Patrol, 47% of deer vehicle collisions in our state happen from October to December. November alone accounts for 22%... depending on the source, with 109,507 deer-involved crashes on Ohio roadways since 2019 ...
Wyoming to again weigh making landowner tags ‘transferable,’ a step toward pay-for-play hunting November 10, 2025 WyoFile on MSN
... A controversial proposal that could help Wyoming landowners make money from elk, deer and pronghorn that use their property has passed muster with a legislative committee and will be up for debate when lawmakers convene February in Cheyenne...
MassWildlife: A closer look at deer breeding season November 9, 2025 iBerkshires.com
... In Massachusetts, the peak rut is between Nov. 6 – Nov. 20. Timing of the rut is related to the period of daylight and has nothing to do with temperature, rain, snow, or moon phase, contrary to commonly held beliefs. As the season progresses and the amount of daylight decreases, hormones elevate in both bucks and does and create the urge to breed...
A Colorado doctor wanted the facts on wolf reintroduction. So he created a watchdog group on Facebook November 9, 2025 The Colorado Sun
... Williams became so taken with wolves and Colorado’s voter-mandated wolf reintroduction program when it kicked off in December 2023 that he created a Facebook page ... Colorado Wolf Tracker ... Wolf Tracker’s other purpose is to be a landing page for reports of wolf sightings and depredations in Colorado, accompanied by photos and locations ...
An evaluation of line transect sampling using drones with thermal sensors for estimating deer abundance 2025 Wildlife Research
... We flew pre-programmed flight paths along transects spaced at 76 m and 152 m over the Auburn Captive Facility (ACF), a 174-ha high-fenced property in Alabama with a largely known deer density, and two additional high-fenced properties in Alabama with unknown deer densities during January–March 2023... Our study demonstrated that thermal drone technology can generate precise and accurate estimates of deer density during line transect surveys, given proper flight planning. Differences in coefficients of variation between transect spacings suggest that closer-spaced transects offer superior precision...
Hunter Analyzed 500,000 Deer To Predict The Best Days To Hunt This Rut Season November 8, 2025 Illinois, Survival World on MSN
... The DeerBrain host plotted 10 years of statewide harvest and looked for the dreaded dead zone near peak breeding. He says it doesn’t appear at the state level. Instead, the curve climbs from mid-October, peaks on November 11, then falls off... Temperature and wind speed—both statistically significant at p < 0.001. Everything else, he says, was non-significant or borderline at best...
As deer season opens, Minnesota CWD cases continue to rise November 8, 2025 Star Tribune on MSN.com
... Nearly 100 cases of chronic wasting disease were documented in Minnesota deer last year, the highest number on record and surpassing the previous high by about a third. Since the first case of the neurodegenerative disease was confirmed here in 2002, about 400 deer have been catalogued with CWD, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Board of Animal Health. About six cases have been documented so far in 2025 ...
A quick and dirty guide to white-tailed deer hunting this year November 6, 2025 Idaho State Journal
... Fall 2022 was a low spot for white-tailed deer harvest. The reason for that 10-year low was not bitter cold, but hot, dry weather and biting midges. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease wreaked havoc on the Clearwater Region’s whitetails that summer, killing thousands of deer... The return of EHD in 2025 ... As of Oct. 27, biologists have received reports of roughly 1,080 white-tailed deer mortalities in the Clearwater Region and 386 in the Panhandle Region suspected to be caused by EHD..,
Cuyahoga County committee advances $450,00 ARPA request to fund Beachwood deer sterilization program November 6, 2025 New York, Citizen Portal AI
... the total cost of the 2025'26 deer-management program is $185,925 and that the city is requesting $45,000 from county ARPA funds specifically for sterilization work. Lombardi said the city would cover the full cost of culling and that the requested county funds would go "entirely towards sterilization." He said Beachwood had surveyed residents, reporting 79% support for continuing deer management and 59% support for a combined culling-and-sterilization approach...
Hunting down in Southeast Ohio amid ongoing deer disease outbreak November 6, 20225 Athens County Independent
... The decline in harvest aligns with the decline in deer populations in Southeast Ohio, Rex said.
As of Oct. 28, Ohio had 9,222 reports of dead or sick deer – substantially more than the state has previously recorded... can be largely attributed to EHD ..,
Strong Deer Season Underway November 7, 2025 Texas Parks and Wildlife
... Texas' whitetail population is estimated at 5 million, making it the largest in the country. In areas with high deer populations, like the Edwards Plateau and Cross Timbers Region, you are encouraged to utilize your antlerless tags to help manage the population... Find out more about whitetails in Texas with our new resource White-tailed Deer Management ..,
Police: Scammers pretending to test deer for disease targeting Texas landowners November 6, 2025 Texas, KHOU on MSN
... chronic wasting disease ... some scammers are using that to try to trick people into letting them onto their land to shoot deer in Kerrville ... people claiming to be with Texas A&M University are asking residents to shoot deer in their yard...
Neighbors concerned with wildlife management in Georgetown November 6, 2025 Texas, FOX 7 Austin on MSN
... Residents say that it has been five years since deer trapping has been used as a wildlife management tool in Sun City... "The HOA and the wilderness committee is working on an archaic, very, very cruel program," said Sun City resident Barbara Meisner. "I didn't come here to see, to see inhumane animal treatment, and it's going to start up again for no reason," said Sun City resident Linda Barde Zimmerling...
What Minnesota deer hunters can expect this season November 6, 2025 Alexandria Echo Press
... More than 400,000 deer hunters are preparing for the firearms deer season, which opens Saturday, Nov. 8 ... Deer populations continue to increase in southern Minnesota, and deer fared well over last year’s mild winter... populations remain robust and highly productive in central Minnesota ... populations in most of the northeast region of Minnesota remain low..,
Arkansas’s modern gun deer hunting season begins Saturday November 5, 2025 KAIT
... An estimated 290,000 people ... will be headed to the woods this year in search of a deer ...
On eve of Minnesota deer season, logging takes a toll on northern whitetails November 5, 2025 The News-Gazette
... A primary problem with Minnesota forest management, Quincer said, is that loggers are allowed to cut aspen in 40-year rotations, whereas significant wildlife benefits don’t begin for 60 years or longer. That’s when understories of spruce, fir and white cedar take hold in aspen stands, which benefit deer and other forest wildlife...[Tim Quincer, DNR forest wildlife manager - retired]
First case of Chronic Wasting Disease found in Edgecombe County deer November 5, 2025 North Carolina, Public Radio East
... the positive result was confirmed in a 3 1/2-year-old male white-tailed deer harvested by a hunter in the eastern corner of the county. The nearest confirmed CWD case from this site is 92 miles away in Cumberland County. The deer was harvested near the Pitt-Martin County line. If confirmed, this would be the 35th CWD-positive deer found in North Carolina since the disease was first detected in 2022...
DEER (CERVIDAE) AND PRONGHORN (ANTILOCAPRIDAE) FROM THE LATE PLEISTOCENE (RANCHOLABREAN) TÉRAPA LOCAL FAUNA, SONORA, MEXICO 2025 New Mexico Museum of Natural History
... remains from Térapa de San Clemente
(Térapa Local Fauna) in east-central, Sonora located along the Río Moctezuma drainage, are described.
The deer remains are fragmentary, but are from a small form of the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus
virginianus. They match in size the Coues deer, O. v. couesi, and are either the latest Pleistocene form
of that subspecies, or a closely related ecomorph...
Fish & Wildlife Asks Deer Hunters to Report Wildlife Sightings November 5, 2025 Vermont, Outdoor Wire
... The survey asks hunters to record how many hours they hunted and how many deer, moose, bears, or other wildlife they saw each day they hunted. This information helps the department evaluate how hunting pressure and the number of these animals varies around the state...
Two-year investigation leads to 19 charges, 17 convictions in Twin Falls County for poaching November 4, 2025 Idaho, KMVT
... Idaho Fish and Game discovered 32 mule deer, one bull moose, one swan and one bobcat were illegally taken since 2016. Charges were filed against 19 people in Twin Falls County. Seventeen have been convicted, sentenced and ordered to pay $48,631 in restitution, while two remain at large...
Mega wildfires can actually be a good thing November 4, 2025 Utah, BYU News
... To test forest regeneration and whether elk, deer and livestock would suppress regrowth in the burned areas, researchers measured tree density, height, and seedling browsing by wildlife and livestock across 34 burned and unburned sites. Initially, herbivore browsing inhibited new growth in some tree species but, by the third year, all tree species showed positive recovery... “We found that when a fire is large enough and burns with mixed severity, the resulting surge of tree regeneration across forest types exceeds what the animals can consume.” ...
New Rules for Indiana Deer Hunting Season 2025 November 4, 2025 NewsBreak
... One of the biggest updates is the switch to a county bag limit system. That means instead of using bonus tags, the number listed for your county is now the total number of antlerless deer you can take there. Across the state, the limit is six antlerless deer and one antlered deer, except in Deer Reduction Zones and during youth season...
No mystery why there's fewer deer and fewer hunting licenses in ND. The habitat is gone. November 4, 2025 North Dakota, InForum
... The modern boom of North Dakota wildlife happened in the early 2000s when the federal Conservation Reserve Program — which paid farmers to keep marginally productive land out of production. That’s 3.4 million acres of grass and temporary wetlands and scrubby stuff in which deer and pheasants thrive... Now the state’s CRP land is down 75% or more, to less than a million acres ...
Miracle Recovery for World’s Rarest and Strangest Deer – Just 39 Became 8,200 November 4, 2025 China, Good News Network
... with the antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox, face of a horse, and tail of a donkey, Père David’s deer was at one time the rarest of its kind on Earth. Hunted to extinction in the wild 125 years ago, captive animals clung to life ...36 Père David’s deer were chosen from five UK zoological gardens. From less than 100, these original animals have multiplied into 8,200 ...
Michigan DNR speeds up aspen harvest schedule to benefit elk November 3, 2025 Petoskey News-Review
... The change in the DNR’s forest management harvest planning will benefit both elk and deer ... Aspen is a resilient tree that regenerates naturally from underground shoots, or root suckers, without the need for replanting. Elk and deer browse on young aspen throughout the year, but primarily during the fall and winter when other food sources become scarce...
Michigan deer hunting season is near. Is it legal to bait deer? November 3, 2025 Detroit Free Press on MSN
... Baiting deer is banned in the Lower Peninsula — unless you have certain disabilities that qualify you for a special hunt. People who are deaf or blind or veterans ...If you're hunting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, you're free to bait deer during firearms season ― as long as you don't exceed two gallons of bait at a site and as long as the bait is dispersed over an area that is at least 10-by-10 feet ...
Crop damage program violation leads to suspension | Price County Review November 3, 2025 Wisconsin, apg-wi.com
... DNR Conservation Warden Lt. Tim Ebert, of the Park Falls office, said that an investigation into the agricultural damage permits being issued there resulted in issues with reporting and tracking paperwork not being completed properly for several years. Essentially, hunters are supposed to be issued a harvest authorization from the land owner in the program before they hunt on the private property, but instead were harvesting a deer and then the owner registered the deer under her own name on the tags ...
Looking For Wounded Deer With Drones Blurs Ethical Lines, Hunters Say November 2, 2025 Wyoming, Cowboy State Daily
... Using drones for hunting has for years been illegal in Wyoming and other states, but some states are loosening those rules to allow hunters to use them to find wounded animals after they’ve been legally shot... “There are going to be people claiming to look for a wounded animal when they’re really out there using heat sensors to look for live animals,” said Newberg ...
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This Florida mega-development is turning suburban backyards into a nature paradise November 17, 2025 Fast Company
... “I’m not talking about a single tree next to a retention pond. I mean a deer is going to walk up to you, and you may see bald eagles, all 15 minutes from the Orlando International Airport.” ... A 27,000-acre residential mega-development taking shape outside of Orlando ...
Sparring deer crash into Colorado basement, get tranquilized, tagged, and released November 9, 2025
CBS News
...Neither of the deer was injured and after they awoke from the sedation, they were released ... Video Below
Carpenter Refuses To Leave Deer Trapped In Ravine, So She Builds A Stairway Out November 7, 2025 New Jersey, The Dodo
... Injured and alone, the deer had no way to escape. The cement walls were between 7 and 10 feet tall and went on for miles... They contacted Nancy Warner, president and founder of The Last Resort Wildlife Refuge ... storms in the next two days. If they didn’t get the deer out within 48 hours, the river would rise ... Sandy Platt Mantione, a volunteer and carpenter, to build custom stairs for the deer ...
Deer roaming Baltimore County with pumpkin bucket on its face has been freed November 4, 42025 Maryland, WMAR
... there would be searches for it to help remove the bucket from its head... was able to be freed ...
The Search Continues for a Maryland Deer Whose Head Is Stuck in a Trick-or-Treat Bucket November 3, 2025 Washingtonian
... the bucket itself is blocking his snout, making it impossible for him to eat or drink water. Depending on the position of his head, it sometimes covers his eyes... Swensen has enlisted the help of somebody who can hit the buck with a tranquilizer dart, but the team has to find him first; he hasn’t shown up on drone footage since Sunday...
'Incredibly rare': How did a moose end up in Kansas? November 3, 2025 KSNT
... A man in Courtland, Republic County, captured photos and video of a moose in a cornfield last week... The last confirmed moose sighting in Kansas came in December 2019 near Scandia, also in Republic County, while the one before that was spotted in 1989...
‘Emo’ deer spotted in Lago Vista, wildlife experts say he’s fine October 28, 2025 Texas, Yahoo on MSN
... The deer has been spotted “proudly wearing a hammock tangled in his antlers,” ... The post went on to explain that male deer naturally shed their antlers before the end of winter, so the “emo-chic accessory” is expected to fall off on its own soon. Video Below
Video Below: Explore all 60 deer species, found natively across 5 continents; their distribution, physical characteristics, conservation status, and more! October 24, 2025
Deer gets snared by plastic pumpkin in Colorado, be mindful of your decorations October 24, 2025 Colorado, KOAA News
... The plastic jack-o-lantern bucket was covering the deer's face... concerned the animal wouldn't be able to eat or drink ... “We see it every year, and it always gets worse this time of year,” said CPW Assistant Area Wildlife Manager Steve McClung of Durango. “Right now is a great opportunity to clean up your yard of items a curious animal might stick its nose in or get wrapped up in...
Why Do Deer Raise Their Tails When They Run? October 22, 2025 National Deer Association
... The white “flag” serves as a warning of imminent danger... Deer have limited vision when it comes to seeing the finer details, but they’re great at catching movement and they see incredibly well in the shorter wavelengths ... A deer’s white tail, rump and white hairs in other body locations do a phenomenal job absorbing the ambient “blue hour” tones at dawn and dusk ...
Video Below: In Littleton, a deer was freed from a metal tomato tower after getting caught in the cage. Colorado, October 22, 2025
Former Lancaster County solid waste exec offers reward in piebald deer's death October 22, 2025 Pennsylvania, Lancaster Online
... Warner said seeing the deer was almost spiritual to him and his wife, Kerry Sacco, and would lift their spirits every time they saw him. “We just watched him, from a little guy, develop into this beautiful 3-year-old. He would come here with the other bucks...
A Look Back At North Dakota's Favorite Pet Deer Jonnie/Ruth October 20, 2025 North Dakota, US 103.3
... her name was Jonnie to some and Ruth to others. She was a fixture for numerous farms south of Sterling and over to Braddock for about 5 years... The Fallgatters raised Jonnie as a very young fawn as her mother and sibling were hit and killed by a car. Jonnie was also injured in that accident and suffered a broken leg... [as a fawn] a cast on her leg....
Blind Michigan deer won't be euthanized by DNR after uproar from lawmakers, animal rights group October 17, 2025 FOX 2 Detroit
... The DNR announced in a news release on Thursday this was one of the rare occurrences where a wild animal would be kept at a facility rather than humanely killed due to its impairment...
DNR calls for rescued fawn's euthanization - and a rehabber says its over paperwork October 16, 2025 Michigan, Yahoo on MSN
... The fawn "came in very critical, unable to stand or even lift her head ... It was months and months of effort ... with vision "that wasn't 100%," wasn't returnable to the woods... were told by a DNR permit specialist that requests had to be in to the agency by Sept. 15 if they wanted to add a fawn...
Photographer captures stunning, rare creature in the Bay Area October 16, 2025 California, KTVU FOX 2
... a rare albino deer... The animal’s white coat was especially pronounced amid the fall-colored brush it stood in alongside its mother and siblings... It's estimated that one in some 30,000 deer is born with albinism...
5-million-year-old deer fossils reveal secrets of north american evolution October 16, 2025 Le Ravi
...The findings, published in Palaeo-Electronica, challenge earlier assumptions about when and where deer first roamed... Eocoileus gentryorum fossils in the northeast Tennessee site, marking some of the oldest known traces of this deer family in North America. Dating back around five million years ...
'A tragedy': PA Game Commission investigates death of rare deer found in East Hempfield Twp. October 16, 2025 Pennsylvania, Lancaster Online
... the apparent shooting of a deer in East Hempfield Township that had a rare genetic condition that made its coat almost all white... the deer “appeared to be shot, and it was recovered in an area where hunting is not allowed.” ...
Drone Video Shows Mountain Lion Hunting in Missouri October 15, 2025 No deer injured in this video.
Mysterious deer fossil unearthed near TTC station identified after almost 50 years October 15, 2025 Ontario, CBC.ca on MSN
... it was most closely related to whitetail and mule deer, but likely a distinct species that diverged around 3,000,000 years ago ... dubbed by scientists as Torontoceros hypogaeus or “horned Toronto deer from underground,” is believed to be one of a kind and almost 12,000 years old...
Police, deputies rescue deer that was trapped in concrete barriers on I-75 October 14, 2025 Michigan, CBS News on MSN.com
... The deputies used the rescue truck and straps to slowly lift the deer, while untangling the animal's hoofs in the process. The animal rescue effort took nearly an hour, and lanes in both directions of I-75 were closed ...
Lions, dogs and deer October 9, 2025 Wisconsin, Waupaca County Post
... The Iola Lions will be collecting deer antlers this fall to donate to a service dog training organization... puppies infamously like to chew on things ...
Deer have built-in detection systems that make hunting a challenge October 8, 2025, Bangor Daily News
... an excerpt from Rue’s book on the deer’s auditory system: “A deer can be in a deep sleep, but its ears never stop moving, winnowing its surroundings for the slightest sound of danger. What is more remarkable is that even while a deer sleeps, its brain is analyzing and filtering out sounds that don’t represent danger.” ...
Check insurance: Deer collisions spike in VA fall October 6, 2025 Virginia, WSLS 10
... state data showing over 7,400 deer-related crashes last year alone ... As fall begins, we’re approaching deer mating season, which means more deer on the road...
Douglas County man faces charges for allegedly filming deer attack October 6, 2025 Oregon, KEZI
... a 21-year-old from Douglas County, is facing serious charges after a video surfaced of his dog attacking an injured deer in Sutherlin. The video, uploaded to social media, has sparked outrage in the community...
Video Below: Video from the Macomb County Sheriff's Office shows two members of the department rescuing a deer from a tangled hammock. October 3, 2025
CPW euthanizes deer with red material tangled in antlers after community concern September 24, 2025 Colorado, Yahoo
Colorado Parks and Wildlife are confirming they have located and euthanized an injured buck in the Colorado Springs/Monument area Wednesday afternoon [see below] CPW posted an update on Wednesday and said the injury was “a source of needless suffering with certainty to worsen.”
Napa Community Helps Baby Deer Rescue Rebuild With $10,000 September 22, 2025 California, Patch
... a giant oak tree crashed down directly onto a rescue clinic in Pope Valley, destroying most of a fence where volunteers care for injured, ill, and orphaned fawns...
Get your binoculars ready: It's elk viewing season in Michigan September 20, 2025 shorelinemedia.net
... The Pigeon River Country State Forest near Gaylord is the heart of elk country, with 13 designated viewing areas that draw visitors from across the country ...
‘There was a buck inside of our restaurant’: Janesville waitress recounts moment deer jumps through window September 18, 2025 Wisconsin, WMTV 15 News on MSN
... “I heard a big crash come through,” waitress Abby Boyer said. “And when I looked off to my right, there was a buck inside of our restaurant.” ... two employees helped it out the side door and it ran off...
Deer may be scruffy looking September 16, 2025 New York, Observer Today
... their hair appears to be falling out in many cases... it is a seasonal molting process as the deer prepare for the colder weather ahead ... White-tailed deer shed their thin, reddish summer coat each year in late August through October and grow in a dense, gray-brown winter coat...
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