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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late ...

The crunch of something stepping on dry leaves catches your ear. The noise stops for a minute, then resumes. You turn your head as slowly as possible so as to be imperceptible in movement. It’s autumn ...

It’s bad time to be driving on country roads at night, but a great time to be a Midwestern whitetail deer hunter, because the chasing phase of the rut is on. Reports from across the region all include ...

According to the National Deer Association, during the 2023-2024 hunting season, U.S. hunters successfully harvested more than 3 million whitetail bucks, thus establishing a new record for mature buck ...

Grayghost Plantation releases an overview of the upcoming 2026–2027 deer season, showing hunters can expect from ...

No state has more white-tailed deer than Texas. That makes it one of the best places in the world to observe a wild ritual known as the deer rut—the annual mating season. Each fall, bucks throw ...

Most buck rubs go cold once the rut gets into full swing. But there's one type of rub that can help you tag a peak-rut trophy ...

The quote “Deer that forget they are afraid of people may behave in strange ways,” by Deer Biologist April Boggs Pope of a release in the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. “That male deer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The prospects for deer hunters filling that buck tag in New York state this year have never been better, even though the tag ...

Stumbling across a fresh rub or scrape in the woods gets any hunter's heart racing. These territorial markers have long been considered prime indicators of deer activity, guiding decisions about stand ...

SERC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Taking the controversial approach that deer hunting has become more a "social event" than an affirmation of the more basic human ...