Conservation
The plains appear tame as a saddled horse and wild as a mustang in the same instant. Looking out over rolling hills and grazing deer everything seems possible and notching your tag appears a certainty. Hours later on your tenth blown stalk of the day, out of water, and running from a rattling sound under a rock, you are suddenly surrounded by the wild land Hugh glass crawled across after being mauled by a grizzly 200 years ago.
The Mule Deer Foundation is working with USFS on public land to improve Mule Deer habitat. The East Deer-Lodge Valley Landscape project has been ongoing for 10 years and wraps up this September. The total management area is 47,000 acres. The project area is 40,000 acres.
The new world Atlas of Ungulate Migrations features Wyoming’s own Red Desert to Hoback mule…
American Wildlife Conservation Partners have released: Conservation Policy Recommendations in the Seventh Edition of Wildlife…
Hunting in the Backcountry with only what you can carry in on your back can be an incredibly fun way to gain access to pieces of property not easily accessed. However, this self reliance sense of adventure also adds a level of complexity you don’t find when hunting via truck or base camp. Below we break down the Mule Deer Foundations packing list for a backcountry hunt with gear recommendations for each item and encourage you to give it a try for your next tag.
North America’s Great Plains, including parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and beyond; the expansive grasslands and mixed shrub habitats create the ideal habitat for Mule Deer.
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 proud to announce the dedication of “The John Stengle Game Production Area,” a 560-acre addition to the Frozen Man Creek in Stanley County, South Dakota.
The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) is thrilled to announce Greg Sheehan as the organization’s new President and CEO. With over 20 years of leadership experience in habitat and wildlife conservation, coupled with notable successes in business, Sheehan is poised to lead MDF into a new era of growth and impact.
Tips on how to find that target buck from a Western Hunting Guide The Mule…
In partnership with the The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Mule Deer Foundation and other…