The author shot his first Columbia blacktail 49 years ago and he ranks them among North America’s most challenging big game animals.

The general rifle hunting season for Western Washington blacktail deer will start Saturday and run through the end of the month. Hunters across Southwest Washington will head into the woods to try and ...

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Craig Miller photographed a fawn and a buck last July from the backyard deck at his North Albany home. Black-tailed deer bucks have velvet-covered antlers in mid-summer. By late summer or early fall, ...

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Even though California has the biggest population and some of the biggest cities in the country, 97 percent of its land is rural. And about 24 percent of it is protected as public wilderness.