Mule Deer Video Stories

There’s a saying among sportsmen, ‘you can’t have trophy animals without trophy habitat.’ This means mule deer need the right kind of food, water, shelter and space to thrive. And as mule deer migrate, these needs change from season to season.

The Mule Deer Initiative is a concentrated effort to enhance mule deer populations. The following stories are about some of the projects being done to improve mule deer survival.

Fawn Monitoring: Research is the foundation for managing wildlife populations. Monitoring mule deer fawns is an intensive program that is yielding clues to fawn survival.

Fawn monitoring - high resolution, 7.1 MB
Fawn monitoring - low resolution, 980 k/bit

Habitat Partners: Private landowners are key to improving habitat for mule deer and one farmer in southeast Idaho is committed to making a difference.

Habitat partners - high resolution, 384 KB
Habitat partners - low resolution, 56 KB

Tex Creek Mule Deer: Historical migration corridor to winter range allows Fish and Game scientists to study habitat and survival corelations.

Tex Creek - high resolution, 384 KB
Tex Creek - low resolution, 56 KB

Students Help Deer: Landowners provide the land and volunteers provide the labor to plant important winter forage for mule deer.

Students planting - high resolution, 2.8 MB
Students planting - low resolution, 544 k/bit

New Tractors Boost Planting: A couple of new machines for planting seedlings has both landowners and wildlife biologists thinking big.

Tractor planting - high resolution, 3.2 MB
Tractor planting - low resolution, 620 k/bit

Good Winter Survival Means Good Hunting: Every fall dedicated deer hunters want to know what kind of season it will be. Mule deer survival rates indicate 2005 will be a very good year.

Hunting season - high resolution, 2.7 MB
Hunting season - low resolution, 556 k/bit