Whitetail Journal

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.

Obstacles aren't a worry for this black bear and the beaver bait it wants.

For more than four decades, elk have been coming to the Joe Watt and Robinson canyons during the winter months to eat the alfalfa hay put out in the mornings by the state.

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.

Wildlife officials are asking residents in a handful of western and northwestern Wyoming towns to be mindful of moose and other wildlife that may show up in neighborhoods.

A biologist in New Hampshire says he's getting a lot of calls about coyotes and warns people to keep their pets inside at night.

Wildlife officials have killed a mountain lion that had taken up residence in a Helena neighborhood and killed three housecats.

Under the bill, the Department of Agriculture would regulate deer raised for meat and for breeding purposes. The Division of Natural Resources would regulate fencing and pen sizes.

Volunteers at a fly-tying marathon, held at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico, Va., tied 716 flies in eight hours, enough to provide veterans all over the country with supplies for free fly-fishing trips.

A man who pleaded guilty to killing a cougar in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in December said he was defending his father, but state wildlife officials say the animal posed no threat and was poached, its heart cooked and some of it eaten by the men.

Two men from Midland have been arrested on charges of illegally buying Michigan black bears and bear parts.

The Department of Natural Resources says a second deer harvested in western Maryland has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

Southern California authorities are searching for a mountain lion that killed a family pet in the backyard of a foothills home.

Maine election officials say supporters of a proposal to end bear baiting have surpassed the threshold necessary to put the initiative on the fall ballot.

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

There was a time when it was rare for someone to kill a buck, and the greatest sin a deer hunter could commit was to shoot a doe. Now, as a general rule, hunters can't shoot enough does and we are debating issues such as buck limits and antler restrictions.

Vermont regulators want to cut the number of moose hunting permits by 20 percent because the herd is below its target population.