In the mountain west, mule deer typically shed from January into March, but elk (which we will bring into the mix here because shed hunting for their antlers is so popular) shed later, typically ...

Reindeer antlers tend to be massive compared to the ... and animals had to either adapt or leave. This is when mountain deer ...

“Antlers are luxury organs,” says Jim Heffelfinger ... “With mule deer specifically, our northern deer in the Kaibab [National Forest] are like Rocky Mountain mule deer. Winter severity and quality of ...

I walk the paths along Blue Mountain until I intercept ... its trunk raw and exposed. Deer passed here, and maybe one dropped their antlers not too long ago. I notice where the deer stirred ...

A deer's antler is part of the scenery at Steamboat ... There are approximately 280,000 Rocky Mountain Elk and about 400,000 mule deer in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Dennis Hawk’s school of finding shed white-tailed deer antlers is not for the faint ... 150 miles over the past few months hiking the Blue Mountain and spots out toward Tamaqua, in the Mahoning ...

What a twist of names that is. In most deer species, only the males grow antlers. However, both male and female reindeer grow antlers. There are rare cases in other deer species in which the ...

Imagine a sleigh with eight flying hippos. Only members of the deer family have antlers that are shed each year, rather than horns that remain throughout the animal's life. Reindeer and caribou ...