Pleasant Island in Alaska is not exactly befitting of its name. The frigid, 20-square-mile island is uninhabited by humans, but it hosts a remarkably large and rich ecosystem that features deer, ...

Wolves returned to Washington state in 2008. A new study shows that, despite their rising numbers, wolves are not having much of an impact on white-tailed deer, one of their primary prey. Scientists ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. HOST: Firearm season for deer hunters has pretty much wrapped up in Minnesota. And data from the DNR shows hunters were more successful than they had been ...

Ecologist Rolf Peterson remembers driving remote stretches of road in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcasses. But that changed after gray wolves arrived in the region ...

Very few Minnesota deer hunters are wolf poachers. But a significant number of wolves are illegally killed during the deer-hunting season. The University of Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project on ...

I just read Paul Smith's article regarding Wisconsin's deer population (“Hunters haven’t come close to controlling Wisconsin’s deer herd over the last decade," Nov. 16). It seems to me one of the most ...

Orr, Minn. — The first clue was the flock of ravens. Tom Gable spotted the birds while driving to work. He pulled over and saw what they were circling: a rib cage poking out of the fresh dusting of ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is gearing up to capture various wild animals in Northern California and outfit them with GPS collars to better track them, the agency said. Deer, elk ...

Humans drove wolves to extinction in Washington state around the 1930s. Thanks to conservation efforts, by about 80 years later, wolves had returned — crossing first from the Canadian border into ...