Among the thousands of deer migrations tracked thus far across Western states, the researchers found that Deer 255 makes the longest point-to-point mule deer migration on record. Her 480-mile ...

Upcoming ODFW webinar on Mule Deer Plan to focus on migration/connectivity, economic and social values. ODFW publication Migration Matters (Wheat and Whittaker, 2023 Map of deer collisions in Oregon.

It’s no secret that mule deer face some serious challenges. Habitat loss, climate change, pressure from predators, chronic wasting disease, and a host of other factors are issues for the West’s most ...

The ultra-long-distance migrating mule deer known as Deer 255 has died. Researchers tracked her across 3,300 miles since 2016. Here, she is shown with her twin fawns in a fall 2020 migration stopover ...

HALL SAWYER documented the longest migration of land mammals in the Lower 48 somewhat by accident.Sawyer, a wildlife biologist, lives in southeast Wyoming, where he studies deer, pronghorn and elk ...

Many Wyomingites are likely familiar with mule deer and their staggering migrations. In western Wyoming, one mule deer herd migrates more than 150 miles each way from the Red Desert to the ...

Deer 255, known for having the longest migration route in West, died in Wyoming's Red Desert. The celebrity deer was known for traveling over 200 miles during migration.

State officials don’t want to lose the ‘power of the punch’ by designating every route in Wyoming, so opt instead to ‘identify’ a newly recognized route in the Wind River Basin.

DUBOIS—Staff from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Lander and Jackson regions collectively decided to delineate the route without installing the regulatory teeth of the state’s ...

In July, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced it was seeking a lesser level of protections by “identifying” the Upper Wind River Mule Deer Migration Corridor — a classification ...

SALEM — When the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife last updated its Mule Deer Management Plan in 2003, game managers saw what appeared to be a fairly stable — although fluctuating ...

In 2022, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimated the mule deer population at 162,600 animals. It’s a significant drop since mule deer numbers peaked at 306,000 animals in 1980.