You don’t have to be a food plot farmer to improve habitat for whitetails.
Food plots aren’t necessary to have a successful deer season, but they can help — sometimes immensely. Here’s how to manage your love/hate relationship with planting, growing and hunting food plots.
Now is the time to get rolling on spring food plots and other work in prep for whitetail hunting season.
Uncovering good public-land hunting spots near your home or campsite sometimes just requires a new attitude or fresh perspective.
If you don't have food plots on your property or don't want them, there are other habitat improvements you can make that keep deer hanging around.
Whitetails often choose the path of least resistance, which is why travel corridors can be the absolute best place to set your ambush.
Louisiana is considering a ban on natural deer urine because of concerns about CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease). If you have an opinion on the matter, then you should speak up before April 3, 2019.
If you want to hunt places unsuitable for treestands or prefer your feet firmly planted on the ground, try hunting at ground level in a blind of natural cover.
Texas Parks & Wildlife offers readers a quick guide to whitetail deer body language with illustrations and descriptions of the most common physical signals.
A deer's vision advantage isn’t really about the ability to see color. Instead, it's about detecting movement and seeing really well in low light.
A controlled burn can be extremely beneficial to your land if you do it the safe and right way.
Evaluating available springtime nutrition for whitetails and finding ways to give deer a jumpstart will improve herd health.
Spring is a great time to be in the woods and arguably the best time of the year to shoot a mature black bear.
Consider all of the factors that affect rut activity to determine the best dates to be in the field next fall.
Surprisingly large black bears aren’t just turning up more frequently. They are being killed in places that didn’t even have a stable bear population two decades ago.
Don’t miss the scouting opportunity this spring to learn the fall travel habits of mature whitetail bucks.
Just walking around in the woods trying to find shed deer antlers is a low-percentage deal. Concentrate your efforts in these five areas to up your odds of owning more bone.
Without more deer hunters, deer numbers surge. This cause-and-effect also allows invasive plants to thrive, enables the spread of Lyme Disease and, remarkably, even changes how things sound in the woods.
Idaho Fish and Game has confirmed a case of Treponema Associated Hoof Disease in an elk killed by a hunter in 2018. It's the first animal diagnosed in the state with the disease.
Successful land managers view properties not as a block of individual microcosms, but as a single, living organism with soft edges to improve deer habitat.
