white-tailed deer

KANE — “Quality deer, quality habitat, quality hunting,” are the words John Dzemyan used at the April Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum to describe the 74,00...

Even though it’s April and spring hobbies like fishing and turkey hunting are starting to take place, this is the best time of the year for post-seaso...

Last year at this time I remember writing about how mild the winter was and how it would benefit the wildlife in many ways. As most are aware, this wi...

My favorite animal is the whitetail buck. I’ve probably said that before, but over the years as I’ve grown as a deer hunter, the behavior and biology ...

Throughout my 27 years of hunting, some of the greatest memories were when I bagged a big buck or limited out on small game. To say the least, for mos...

Recently, I wrote an article about each hunting season being different from every other. Due to a variety of factors, the most important being weather...

As a young child, even before I was old enough to hunt, I had a passion for deer hunting. However, what really led me to fall in love with whitetail h...

With deer becoming increasingly active, and daylight-saving time soon to put more vehicles on the road during the hours when deer move most, the Penns...

By mid- to late October, bucks rubs are appearing just about anywhere you go in the woods. October and November are the whitetail rutting months, whic...

Today is the opening day of the Pennsylvania archery season. This is a day thousands of hunters anxiously wait for every year. Nonetheless, the early ...

I can remember back to my first few years of hunting, one of the biggest learning experiences for me was that the woods were always changing from one ...

By the end of summer, there are more changes happening in the whitetail world than any other time of year. The first thing I always enjoy paying atten...

Few things fascinate deer hunters more than large, multi-pointed antlers. The flash of a heavy 10 or 12-point buck can excite hunters to a fever pitch...

HARRISBURG — The 2023-24 deer seasons ended months ago as did the busiest time for chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance. CWD, a fatal neurologic...

The prevalence of chronic wasting disease in south central Pennsylvania’s white-tailed deer herd continues to increase, and some positive tests have b...

HARRISBURG — During the firearms hunting season for bear Nov. 19-22 hunters killed a reported 1,018 bruins, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commiss...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — As animal-motor vehicle collisions skyrocketed during the pandemic,Pennsylvaniamaintained its position as the state with the most c...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A traditional holiday song poses a question that a hunter might want to ask a white-tailed deer: “Do you see what I see?” If the de...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Juvenile white-tailed deer that strike out to find new home ranges — despite facing more risks — survive at about the same rate as t...

Many give little thought to changing their ways once a deer is harvested and it is on the ground. The process is fairly simple. It’s a procedure hande...