Mayer was rehired as director and the makeup of the Nevada Wildlife Commission was altered in July 2011 by Gov. Brian Sandoval, with the issue of mule deer management central to all of the changes.

If you live in Nevada, then you are probably familiar with mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and the pressures that they can put on your yard or garden. Mule deer can be found throughout the state, from ...

There’s no denying that Yosemite is popular with other creatures too. Its biodiversity is high, with over 400 animal species ...

Nevada’s mule deer populations have been stable to slightly increasing for the past several years. Following a modest (3 percent) increase in 2012, the 2013 population is estimated to have experienced ...

Three Nevada men were convicted of poaching a mule deer they had harassed with a drone before illegally killing the animal, state wildlife officials announced Tuesday. In October 2021, the men ...

The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners endorsed plans for two emergency mule deer hunts in a designated portion of Area 6. With winter looming, the hunts are for antlerless deer and were put in ...

The planned expansion of a major gold mine in northeast Nevada could cause big problems for Nevada's largest herd of mule deer, a sportsmen and conservationist group contends. The Coalition for ...

A herd of mule deer graze in Nevada on April 8, 2012. A group associated with the Nevada Department of Wildlife is offering $1,000 in search for an arrest in a suspected deer poaching case.

Three men were convicted of harassing a mule deer buck with a drone before illegally killing the animal, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife on Tuesday.

Effective immediately, all elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, moose, reindeer, caribou, and fallow deer within Nevada Hunt Units 192-196, 201-208, 211-213, and 291 are under quarantine (map attached).

In Nevada, mule deer populations dropped from about 149,000 in 1993 to 109,000 a decade later, said Gregg Tanner, big game chief for the Nevada Department of Wildlife.