Experts share why feeding deer in the winter does more harm than good. As the temperature plummets and snow blankets the ...

With its stocky, flat build, badgers are powerful, relentless hunters, and are constantly pursuing the rodents that compose its diet ... prey include deer mice, pocket mice, and scorpions ...

For the first time, a wild deer in Menominee County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The Wisconsin Department ...

Of the 11,000-plus samples submitted for CWD testing this year, about 2,200 have been classified as “voluntary submissions,” ...

Most winters, I devote some space to reminding folks that feeding wildlife to “help” them through the harsh weather of the season is generally a bad idea. After two relatively mild winters with not ...

Lingering sandhill cranes in Holiday Hills and an astonishing note about hunting, meat-eating ground squireels in California are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

The push for severe hunting restrictions grew in large part out of the public’s emotional attachment to the wide-eyed deer and from conflicts over the ethics of killing animals in the wild.

On Dec. 26, 1846, some members of the ill-fated Donner Party are believed to have turned to cannibalism in order to survive ...

All elk are deer, but not all deer are elk ... They primarily eat a vegetarian diet, and males grow antlers that they periodically shed and regrow throughout their lives. That said, despite ...

He added that people should not approach wild deer or put clothes on them. "I didn't think I'd have to specify that one," he said, adding that deer are typically "pretty quick." In a separate ...

For the first time since the Reagan era, 10 Louisianans were able to legally hunt black bears in the state, a privilege ...