BILLINGS – Mule deer populations in Eastern Montana are showing strong signs of recovery based on post-hunting season surveys this winter. “The basic indication is that things are looking ...

After the 2011 hunting seasons, it was estimated there were 376,000 mule deer in the state. This is 24 percent below the statewide objective of 564,650 mule deer,” Wyoming’s WAFWA report stated.

by NBC Montana Staff Thu, June 12th 2025 at 7:28 AM Out-of-state couple sentenced for illegally harvesting trophy mule deer in Montana Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS / CC BY 2.0) 1 TOPICS: ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has established a newChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zone in Hunting District 170, ...

Albino deer are rare, but just how rare is open to debate. One 1989 book, “The Deer of North America,” estimated the rate of albinism in mule deer at 1 in every 500,000 deer.

A North Dakota couple has been fined and lost their hunting and fishing privileges after pleading guilty to illegally killing a trophy mule deer buck in southeast Montana. On Sept. 5, 2022, game ...

The Wiseman’s were sentenced to a $300 fine, a suspended six-month jail sentence, and will pay a total of $8,000 restitution for the trophy mule deer buck. They also lost their hunting, fishing ...

Biologists worry that mountain lions are possibly being over-hunted, so one Fish, Wildlife & Parks commissioner tried to ...

There are many big game species to lure a sportsman to the Rocky Mountains. Elk, mule deer and antelope attract many ...

The Senate Parliamentarian said language inserted into President Donald Trump’s budget bill by Republican Sen. Mike Lee that ...

Groups from across the political spectrum have raised alarm about Sen. Lee's original proposal to sell millions of acres of public lands across the West.