Science, politics, management and CWD are among the hottest issues in deer hunting today, with state officials and biologists at the forefront of these.
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How to Plant Soybeans for Your Best Deer Food Plots
When the late-season weather gets brutal, nothing is more appealing to hungry whitetails than a patch of standing soybeans. Nothing.
Plant These Deer Magnets to Make Them Go Nuts
Autumn food plots, including mast tree such as chestnuts, are great ways to provide extra food to deer and wildlife through winter when sources get scarce.
Create a Road Map for Your Best Deer Management Program
Whitetail deer management can be challenging. Can you produce heavy-racked bucks without knowing precisely how many deer are on your land?
DDH Classic: Grandpa’s Food Plot Proverbs and Secrets
Believe it or not, many old truisms, proverbs and old-time sayings teach valuable lessons when farming for wildlife such as whitetail deer.
Food Factor: How Nutrition Affects Maternal Care Between Does and Fawns
Evidence indicates that summer food stress can contribute to unusually high white-tailed deer newborn fawn mortality often mistakenly credited to predation.
How Your Opinion Can Affect Deer Season Decisions
Expressing your opinions to state wildlife officials can give them valuable insight to what’s going on in the public and help drive management decisions.
Create the Nastiest, Most Beneficial Bedding Areas for Deer Hunting
By creating a definitive bedding area, you are likely to hold big bucks on the property and have a better idea of where they will be during hunting season.
How to Transform Bedding Areas, Create Deer Ambush Sites
Through habitat management, careful selection and hinge cutting trees, one Midwest hunter is creating great buck bedding areas that help keep deer on his property and provide great hunting locations during the season. You can create these on your property, too.
The Smoking Gun: Does CWD Drive Whitetail Population Declines?
White-tailed deer populations are on the decline nationwide. Although the reasons vary regionally, some experts suggest diseases such as chronic wasting disease (CWD) are a contributing factor — at least in specific areas.