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 ...

The longest recorded migratory mule deer herd in the world travels about a 150 miles from the Red Desert in southwest Wyoming to a place called the Hoback.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The longest recorded migratory mule deer herd in the world travels about 150 miles (241 kilometers) from the Red Desert in southwest Wyoming to a place called the Hoback ...

Gregory Nickerson is a writer and filmmaker for the Wyoming Migration Initiative. He explains, “The University of Wyoming has been tracking mule deer migrations from the Red Desert to the ...

WILDLIFE WATCHING — A Wyoming herd of about 500 mule deer travels 50 miles from the Red Desert to the southern end of the Wind River Range, where it joins about 5,000 more deer to walk another ...

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 ...

Wyoming mule deer and pronghorns are dying from starvation due to snow that’s buried their favorite shrubs, a lack of wind that usually clears hillsides for foraging and below-zero temperatures.

Wyoming Game and Fish Department staffer Rene Schell and University of Wyoming graduate ecology student Tucker Russell eye Project Herd mule deer in an irrigated field in June 2024.

Mule deer face a lot of challenges, but groups like the MDF are supplying money, manpower, and science to help this Western icon thrive.

Last winter in Wyoming was so harsh that tens of thousands of deer and antelope perished. This season, thousands of hunters are voluntarily sitting out to give the herds time to recover.

The longest recorded migratory mule deer herd in the world travels about a 150 miles from the Red Desert in southwest Wyoming to a place called the Hoback.