The state of Alaska is developing plans to transplant Sitka black-tailed deer to the southern Kenai Peninsula, the Alaska ...

A plan to bring Sitka black-tailed deer back to the southern Kenai Peninsula is moving ahead this fall.This move comes as the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has focused on identifying ways to ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is planning to transplant some two dozen Sitka black tail deer from Kodiak to the south end of the Kenai Peninsula.

The Kodiak Archipelago’s Sitka blacktail deer population originated in Southeast Alaska, and grew steadily over the past century.

Both Columbia and Sitka black-tailed deer are subspecies of the larger and more widely distributed mule deer of the interior West. Based in Salt Lake City, the Mule Deer Foundation was founded in 1988 ...

The Sitka deer are similar to the Colombian black-tailed deer, another mule deer subspecies. However, all of that has apparently changed during the past two years.

Sitka black-tailed deer used to be abundant on Pleasant Island, a small island accessible only by boat in the icy waters of Alexander archipelago in southeastern Alaska. From 2013 to 2018, however ...