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When deer hunters and wildlife professionals refer to “the RUT,” they mean the time when White-tailed deer are breeding. It’s a time when buck deer become less concerned about safety and are more ...

When deer hunters and wildlife professionals refer to “the RUT,” they mean the time when white-tailed deer are breeding. It’s a time when buck deer become less concerned about safety and are more ...

The 2025 whitetail rut has wound down across the Midwest Region. Increasingly rare reports of a buck standing guard over a bedded doe, or a younger buck charging in nose to the ground and breaking up ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A recent cluster of deer attacks in several North Carolina counties has prompted wildlife officials to warn residents not to feed, approach or attempt to care for wild deer - ...

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 ...

The attention of this magnificent white-tailed buck is completely riveted on the doe in the foreground. This sort of single-mindedness can cause problems when deer cross roads at this time of year.

If you’ve been on the roads lately, you already know the deer situation is out of control. I drove about 45 minutes to a doctor’s appointment today and counted seven dead deer on the shoulder. Seven.

It’s one week until Thanksgiving, but it still feels like late summer! Upper-level winds will allow a ridge to develop over the Southeast, and this ridge is responsible for surface temperatures to ...