The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is closing 23,400 acres — about 36 square miles — of the Methow Wildlife Area for the third winter in a row to protect mule deer. The closures ...

Under Washington state law, spotlighting is a gross misdemeanor punishable with a two-year suspension of hunting privileges. Spotlighting after a big game offense within the past 10 years is a felony ...

Meeker-area hunting outfitter Shawn Welder had just come down from the high country in the Flat Tops in mid-July and was struck by the absence of something he would see as a teen when doing guiding up ...

Everyone who’s familiar with the two most popular deer species in the U.S. has their own method of telling a mule deer from a whitetail deer. If you happen to live in an area where the two species’ ...

Mule deer living in light-polluted areas are drawn to artificial nighttime lighting, which is associated with green vegetation around homes. Cougars, also known as mountain lions and pumas, are able ...

Michael Eugene Stock Sr. is memorialized by a granite headstone in a Midwestern cemetery and the name he passed down to his son, along with his love of deer hunting. Michael Ellis McKean shares that ...

With their iconic antlers and graceful movements, mule deer command attention in the wild. Learn what makes them the undisputed ‘Antler Kings’ of their habitat. Wife of suspended Osceola County ...

Aug 12, 2022 Aug 12, 2022 Updated Oct 2, 2023 Addressing the issue by separating the muzzleloader and archery seasons could be difficult, agency staff noted in a memo last fall on the issue. Both ...