As Montana’s mule deer population declines, a group of hunters has taken it upon themselves to craft a series of proposals to profoundly change the state’s deer and elk hunting seasons.

Another information point noted in the survey is that Montana elk and mule deer hunters like their five-week general rifle season, even if it means giving up the opportunity to hunt more trophy ...

This hunting season only antlered buck mule deer can be harvested ... drastically reduced their mule deer numbers.” Although elk populations in Eastern Montana have grown, Dorak said that ...

Elk hunting is typically best during colder ... and just up from the five-year average. West-central Montana hunters have checked 97 mule deer this season, compared to 95 at this point in 2022.

Montana’s general big game hunting season ended on Sunday ... cumulative harvest for all species—mule and white-tailed deer, elk and antelope—were all below the harvests from last year.

BILLINGS – Mule deer populations in Eastern Montana are showing ... The project targeted elk in southern Phillips and Valley counties in the eastern portion of Hunting District 622 in the ...

Wyoming has fewer than half of the 500,000 mule deer it did during the heyday of the 1960s to 1980s, and it will likely never ...

Ian Wargo, a civil engineer and licensed guide from Kalispell, has been appointed to serve on the seven-person board ...

The mule-deer buck was about 150 yards away ... and he had made two previous hunting trips to Montana on which he was­­­ fortunate enough to shoot both elk and antelope. On this trip Tony came by car ...

Northeast Montana has seen an increase in chronic ... “Prevalence is more pronounced for mule deer in the northern hunting districts that border Canada.” Following the latest sampling ...

I’d gone back to Colorado almost every year to hunt antelope or elk, but it wasn’t until recently that I hunted mule deer again. Miles called to tell me he had a line on a leftover archery ...

HELENA – Biologists conducting spring deer and elk ... mule deer in the trend area, which is almost 100 percent above objective. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in the hunting district.