It doesn't take a safari or a remote jungle trek to witness wild animals in their natural settings. Across the U.S., ...

Each spring, a herd of mule deer leaves the Red Desert and follows a trail of greening grass and retreating snow along the western slope of the Wind River Range.

WIND RIVER VALLEY-Biologists Tucker Russell and Rene Schell stopped in their tracks. Spooked out of a daybed, a mule deer doe sprung to her feet. She bounded up a gentle, grassy slope amid ...

Wyoming wildlife managers could even turn to some of the methods they've been using to address overpopulated elk herds: Tactics like "auxiliary" hunts and paying technicians to kill elk, which stretch ...

A mule deer fawn bounds away from two biologists and a journalist hiking through Fremont County's high desert in June 2024. (Tucker Russell/University of Wyoming) by Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile WIND RIVER ...

There, in hunt area 157, numbers registered at just shy of 1,300 mule deer. Hunter-killed deer in this agriculturally dominated area have the highest rates of CWD. The region is among the first in ...

The most famous mule deer in Wyoming died April 11 on a brushy pocket in the middle of the Red Desert. A mountain lion likely killed the 10-year-old doe known for migrating more than 200 miles ...

After trekking untold thousands of miles back and forth across Wyoming on record-setting migrations and gaining worldwide fame, Deer 255 has died. The deer met her end in the Red Desert, likely taken ...

A Wyoming mule deer that migrated farther than any other deer known to science has died. Deer 255’s life of migrations ended in the Red Desert of Wyoming, about 200 miles from her most recent summer ...

A mule deer approaches one of the 200 fences it must cross on its seasonal migration from Yellowstone to southern Wyoming's Red Desert. New maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) show the ...

By 2013, Sawyer and his colleagues had established that some deer walked from the Red Desert to the Hoback Basin southeast of Jackson, Wyoming, and back every year — a round-trip journey of ...

I heard the Colorado hunting stories, though, told by my father’s friends, and I wanted to travel with them to hunt. This, then, was my first journey on the mule deer highway.