Projects
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 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.
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…
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…
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.
The new world Atlas of Ungulate Migrations features Wyoming’s own Red Desert to Hoback mule…
In June 2024, the Mule Deer Foundations conservation staff began a multi-partner and multi-state project to address fence entanglement concerns for mule deer migrating between Idaho and Utah.
Readers will remember our announcement to close part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. This weekly…
The Mule Deer Foundation is improving water and forage availability for deer and other wildlife…
Important herds of mule deer, elk, and bighorn sheep will now have an easier path…
Spring is in full swing and big things are happening here in Arizona with the…