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

Near or at dark, a thick-necked 8- or IO-pointer might charge out into the field, scatter the subdominant bucks like quail ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Deer season is over and winter is settling in. And we have nine months until deer season starts again for bow benders here in New York state, on Oct. 1. Whitetails have already begun to shed their ...

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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.