Vermont's 16-day regular deer hunting season opens on Saturday, Nov. 11, and ends on Sunday, Nov. 26. Nick Fortin, deer and moose project leader for Vermont Fish & Wildlife, said the rifle hunting ...

Dr. Grant Woods with a stud buck. During the whitetail pre-rut and rut, hunters should worry less about the type of weather that will “get deer moving” and focus more on weather conditions that will ...

No Minnesota natural resource has received more attention in recent months than the northeast's deer herd. Beginning in mid-November, at 18 separate meetings held from St. Cloud in the south to ...

Nick Fortin, of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, demonstrates how he tracks deer through the woods of Ferdinand on Dec. 8, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On the last Friday of ...

I’ve been hunting in the woods lately, but without a firearm or a bow. Vernal pools are boiling with mating wood frogs. Honking geese fill the skies. Trees have not yet begun to bud so the sun is warm ...

Small-woods deer hunting is its own kind of puzzle. You don’t have sprawling timber, deep ridges, or endless bedding cover to work with. What you do have are tight corridors, overlooked pockets, and ...