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The Wyoming hunting outlook for the 2025 season is excellent for elk, cautiously optimistic for mule deer and improving for ...
Mid-summer weather patterns have trended slightly cooler and wetter, coupled with “average” winter weather seen for 2024-25, FWP wildlife biologists report most populations of deer and elk in the regi ...
Mule deer population declines across many areas of Montana have prompted Fish, Wildlife & Parks biologists to recommend some hunting regulation changes for 2024 and 2025.
After our former optics editor Bill McRae botches a shot on a nice mule deer buck in Montana, he manages a shot at redemption.
How to stall the falling of Montana's mule deer population is a question the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks is attempting to figure out.
Despite mule deer populations declining across portions of Montana recently, an increasing number of communities have approached the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks to create urban deer ...
Regulations will change for the Missouri Breaks region of central Montana for deer hunters in 2024.Wildlife officials changed hunting regulations after the mule ...
The largest drop has been in southeastern Montana’s Region 7 where mule deer populations are estimated to have increased by about 20%.
Collectively at check stations in southwest Montana 6,112 hunters harvested 66 white-tailed deer, 152 mule deer and 310 elk. Hunter success was lower than the long-term average due to mild weather.
BHA help Montana raise a record amount of funds for its statewide mule deer tag. Photo by John Hafner Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Montana’s chapter of Backcountry ...
Elk hunting is challenging in northwest Montana due to difficult terrain, heavily forested habitat, and densities relatively lower than some areas in Montana. White-tailed deer ...