Habitat

Bass Pro Grant Update for Great Plains

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

MDF Awarded $250,000 from Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s for Great Plains

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.

Mule Deer Alley

A detour down the Mule Deer Highway known as the Alzeda highway through the most beautiful landscape in the world”

How you can help with Idahos Wildfires

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.

“MDF Begins Historic Habitat Improvement Project in Gasoline Alley”

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.

USDA Signs Memo on Conserving Mule Deer Migration routes!

The Mule Deer Foundation applauds the signing of this Secretarial Memo to ensure that the full suite of USDA programs and resources are coordinated to sustain mule deer and other big game populations that migrate

“Cheatgrass, What is it? Why is it bad for Mule Deer, and Why is MDF spending your donations removing it”?

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…

Communal living group and MDF Habitat Work in California

Weather, wildlife, wildfires… These are all considerations the Mule Deer Foundation staff biologists taken consideration when planning timelines for projects. We know not all projects will run smoothly and that often times there will be delays, due to factors we cannot control. However, on a recent project close to completion in the Plumas National Forest our resident Mule Deer Foundation biologist was surprised to have work interrupted by…

MDF VOLUNTEERS IN THE FIELD

The wildfire smoke cleared and the sky was blue along the Crooked River drainage for the Eagle Rock/Sanford Creek mule deer winter range protection volunteer work day.  Thanks and congratulations go out to all of you, the Prineville BLM staff/volunteers, the Mule Deer Foundation and Oregon Hunters Association – Ochoco Chapter volunteers that were on hand to accomplish the long-awaited project intended to protect our wintering mule deer in the region.

Habitat work in Montana’s Premier Mule Deer Unit

The Mule Deer Foundation’s habitat improvement project in Montana’s Mule Deer unit 270.

Public Land Prospectors in the Snowy Range

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”

Mule Deer Foundation Press Release!

The Mule Deer Foundation steps up to help ranchers and mule deer impacted by recent wildfires in NE Wyoming