During winter, food becomes scarce and snow covers much of the vegetation that deer typically consume. To cope, white-tailed deer shift their diets from green plants to woody browse. They feed on ...

Starvation, although probably always causing some mortality even during moderate Adirondack winters, may cause massive mortality when deep snow cover exceeds 100 days (as was the case in the winters ...

Deer, meanwhile, particularly up north, often also seek warmth and snow protection in pine, cedar, balsam and other conifer stands. Escape possibilities from wolves also are enhanced in these ...

White-tailed deer have expanded their range in North America ... sandy soil and freezing winters with lots of snow. They're basically your typical winter wonderland in theory — but actually ...

Reindeer are members of the deer family, but several features set them apart from their white-tailed cousins found ... hooves are adapted for padding over snow. Members of both sexes also sport ...

above average for mule deer and below average for white-tailed deer. Snow levels were high enough to make high-country travel difficult for hunters, but not enough to concentrate elk on winter ranges.

(The Conversation) – Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a ...

The DNR's winter severity index was developed mostly to gauge impacts on deer in the northern part of the state. Here's how ...

Unlike moose with their long legs, he said, white-tailed deer aren't built for deep snow, so when there's a lot of snow, mortality rates are high. And since northern New Brunswick historically ...

In mild conditions but with no snow, hunters registered 89,203 white-tailed deer over the opening weekend of the 2024 Wisconsin nine-day gun deer hunting season, a 2% decrease from last year and 5 ...