Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a century ago. While they ...

White-tailed deer in North America are back to their precolonial population levels. John Woodhouse Audubon/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Given their abundance in American backyards, ...

The white-tailed deer is one of the most abundant deer in the United States. Native to all but a handful of states, it has also become a conservation success story after the white-tailed deer was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This near-disappearance of deer was much ...

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far ...