Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.

The eight-point buck was oblivious to the steady stream of vehicle traffic around him, sniffing the ground in a front yard on Arrowhead Road in Duluth, grunting loudly as he went. There was a doe ...

The peak of the deer rut, when they are most active, runs from late October to mid-December. Drivers are urged to be extra cautious during morning and evening commutes when visibility is lower. If a ...

When humans fall into a rut, it’s understood that our lives have become routine and boring. When a road becomes rutted, overuse in wet conditions have resulted in a dangerous drive. But if you’re a ...

As I was driving along a primitive road through the thick brush along the Snake River, I saw the wiggle of a white-tailed deer through the brush. I stopped and made a slow stalk through the weeds and ...

Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s spread out “trickle rut.” Here, as winter is on its last legs, some may ...

Cellular trail cameras really are fantastic tools for researching a local deer herd and their habits. Last December on public land in Manatee County, at a time when the peak of the rut had been over ...

Yet another white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mating season is behind us now. This year I spent a truckload of time in the woods following several large bucks who were actively searching for ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a ...

Experience has taught us that the annual whitetail rut is not always the one-dimensional occurrence so often portrayed. The annual whitetail rut usually has three distinct peaks of breeding activity, ...