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

Big game hunting presents unique challenges for hunters seeking the thrill of pursuing large, powerful animals. From dense ...

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

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 ...

Opening day. It’s a day when anything can happen. I was hoping, if for only a brief moment at sunrise, that this season could ...

The Blacktail Deer Foundation will work on conservation to help the Columbian and Sitka black-tail deer. Black-tail deer now have some more heft among humans, with the announcement this week of a new ...

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division is asking for the public’s help catching the person or people responsible for poaching two juvenile blacktail deer in Clatsop ...