Fire Restoration
We work across 18 states with multiple federal and state agencies looking at forests of all shapes and sizes trying to work out and implement a sustainable forestry plan.
By: Jessie Shallow (MDF Idaho Partner Biologist) The importance of Sagebrush for Idaho Mule Deer…
Following a keystone agreement on September 2023, the Tonto National Forest and the Mule Deer Foundation committed to restoring 1000 acres of landscape through lop and scatter-type projects
In the MDF Employee Spotlight Segment the Mule Deer Foundation would like to call attention…
In 2024 MDF launched its Private Lands Conservation Program in the Great Plains. The Mule Deer Foundations mission focuses on sharing the conservation of these deer species through innovative land and wildlife management practices, partnerships with various stakeholders, and public education
The Bass Pro shops, and Cabela’s outdoor fund grant was generous enough to award the Mule Deer Foundation $250,000 that we can leverage with an additional $1.4 million in funds from other partners and internal sources. By combining these funds, we are implementing more than 27 projects on working lands and ranches across the Great Plains states resulting in improvements to over 55,000 acres of wildlife habitat.
The 2024 wildfire season has seen hundreds of thousands of acres burn in Southwest Idaho, including the Paddock and Valley fires, which burned a combined 200,000 acres of critical winter range that sustains thousands of big game animals.
Following the fatal “Frog Fire” in the Modoc National Forest of California in 2015 in which a woodland firefighter was trapped and killed in the line of duty, the U.S. Forest Service and Mule Deer Foundation are beginning a habitat improvement project addressing 11,000 acres of fire fuels reduction and Mule Deer habitat improvement.
First Published by MEATEATER here: https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/what-is-cheatgrass-and-why-is-it-so-bad-for-mule-deer At the Mule Deer Foundation we are blessed to…
How Public Land Prospectors are adding an extra layer of complexity to the Mule Deer Foundation’s habitat work in the Snowy Range of Wyoming”
The Mule Deer Foundation steps up to help ranchers and mule deer impacted by recent wildfires in NE Wyoming
In the MDF Volunteer Spotlight segment the Mule Deer Foundation would like to call attention to a specific MDF volunteer, and bring their efforts to the forefront of our messaging. These volunteers are pivotal to the Mule Deer Foundation accomplishing our mission and it’s important that we recognize them as often as we can.