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Officials say a deer carcass found near the entrance to Fort Stevens State Park was confirmed to be a cougar kill.

New from crossbow powerhouse Barnett, the Buck Commander Raptor Reverse is raising plenty of eyebrows.

Sharpshooters would kill as many as 350 deer annually for four years under a plan to reduce herd size in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, under a plan announced this week.

Authorities say a Minnesota hunter with no luck of his own was caught stealing a buck shot by another hunter.

Officials say hunters in Ohio checked more than 6,600 antlerless white-tailed deer during the state's muzzleloader season last weekend.

Missouri conservation officials are scaling back their recommendations for new regulations of deer farms and hunting preserves that were aimed at controlling disease but had prompted cost concerns.

Where'd your whitetail buck disappear to right before the season started? Chances are, he's run off to his secondary home range.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources says it hopes to implement regulations allowing more Sunday hunting in western Maryland before the firearm deer season begins.

The National Park Service is giving its approval to a plan that would have government sharpshooters kill more than 2,800 white-tailed deer at three Civil War battlefields.

Researchers now have better data on where whitetail bucks disappear to during the rut, whether does really are more vigilant than bucks, and how to treat acorn trees to maximize the food they provide for deer.

A police officer at Fort Indiantown Gap is on suspension after two other officers claimed he shot several deer and a bobcat while on duty.

The state's free-ranging white-tailed deer population supports 12,000 jobs and generates more than $1 billion in economic activity annually in Missouri.

Poachers have killed a large buck and wounded at least three deer in a tiny fishing village where residents' feeding of the animals has made them easy targets.

Hunters harvested more than 243,000 deer in New York state during the 2013 hunting season, nearly the same as the take for the previous year.

North Dakota hunters had a smaller chance of downing a doe or buck last season among the lowest deer population in three decades, and wildlife officials say stemming the decline of the animals' habitat is key to restoring both.

Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.

A new trial date has been set for a Louisiana business and three men accused of smuggling white-tailed deer into Mississippi in 2011 and 2012.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reports a near record number of deer were taken during the 2013-14 deer hunting season.

New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation is starting an aerial survey of the deer population of the Bronx.

There are an estimated 800 to 1,000 deer on the 9.5-square-mile island. Officials had hoped to reduce that number by 200 this winter.

Ohio wildlife officials have proposed hunting policies that would reduce the bag limit for deer for most of the state's counties.

The state is attributing a large drop in the number of deer bagged by Ohio hunters to the effect of liberal bag limits in past years meant to bring down the number of deer.

According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the numbers reflect the stability of the state's deer population. In the 2012-13 seasons, hunters harvested more than 176,600 deer.

Police say the deer struck the driver and went out the back window of his pickup truck.

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Timely calling has often proven to be the deciding factor between not seeing deer and tagging the trophy of a lifetime.

Proper preparation allows a frigid late-rut Canadian whitetail adventure to heat up fast.