The Anaconda Urban Wildlife Management Task Force received the blessing Tuesday of commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County to move ahead with a plan for managing pesky town mule deer.

The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists conducted surveys recently, they came across an extremely uncommon sight. In fact ...

The reality of habituated mule deer in Anaconda dying from starvation conflicts with the more sentimental view that the town’s doe-eyed deer are cute and even a draw for tourists. Wildlife ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post was first published on March 30, 2022. The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists ...