Winter survival is typically the biggest single factor affecting mule deer herds, and the long-term average is about 60% of ...

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 ...

Mule deer lift their heads ... These same haunting buttes draw 900,000 people a year to Badlands National Park, the heart of the landscape. Most come to drive along the Wall, a long, narrow ...

Here, the landscape is dominated by the Great Plains Badlands and the atmosphere is ... the park is a haven for mule deer, antelope, grouse, and turkey. To get an even bigger taste of solitude ...

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 ...