BISMARCK – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s annual spring aerial mule deer survey is set to begin ... airplanes over some parts of the Badlands.

“We very rarely see elk populations affected by a hard winter. But we see that fairly often with mule deer,” said Fish and ...

Winter survival is typically the biggest single factor affecting mule deer herds, and the long-term average is about 60% of fawns surviving their first winter, but during hard winters that can be ...

The 56,000 or so people who hunt mule deer east of the Cascades each year, whether they carry a rifle or a bow, could see a ...