As winter envelops Michigan with snow and frigid temperatures, white-tailed deer utilize a complex array of survival strategies to endure the season's harsh conditions. During winter, food becomes ...

White-tailed deer vacated their summer ranges when the snow depth reaches 15 inches, usually in late November or December, and travel up to 12 miles to ... If additional heavy snow falls, deer quickly ...

Deer, meanwhile, particularly up north, often also seek warmth and snow protection in pine, cedar, balsam and other conifer stands. Escape possibilities from wolves also are enhanced in these ...

Wildlife ecologists have seen white-tailed deer expanding their range in North America over many decades. And since the early-2000s these deer have moved north into the boreal forests of western ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The species was far from the most important food resource at that time, though.

Unlike moose with their long legs, he said, white-tailed deer aren't built for deep snow, so when there's a lot of snow, mortality rates are high.

The DNR's winter severity index was developed mostly to gauge impacts on deer in the northern part of the state. Here's how ...

In mild conditions but with no snow, hunters registered 89,203 white-tailed deer over the opening weekend of the 2024 Wisconsin nine-day gun deer hunting season, a 2% decrease from last year and 5 ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The species was far from the most important food resource at that time, though.