Mule deer also eat mostly woody browse and forbs throughout the spring and early summer. When cold weather hits, they rely on a lot of very cold-hardy shrubs to get them through until green-up. And ...

A young male southern mule deer has been spotted multiple times near Kate Sessions Park in Pacific Beach, San Diego, ...

Mule deer rely on sage brush habitat for browse and cover. Tom Koener / USFWS It’ll come as no shock, I’m sure, to learn that the plants that mule deer eat, sleep under, and walk around are pretty ...

According to conservancy officials, mule deer are the most destructive invasive animal left on Catalina. Intense grazing by deer has placed increasing stress on native plants and paved the way for ...

Mule deer are ruminants, animals with multi-chambered stomachs that help them break down the often fibrous plants they eat, which includes the tips of shrubs like bitterbrush and sagebrush.

and 18 mule deer from California forests were introduced nearly a century ago. Now, 2,000 deer are mowing through the native plants here. That has eroded soil, depleted the food supply for other ...