California wildlife officials have confirmed the state’s first case of COVID-19 in a wild animal, detected in a mule deer killed in 2021 in El Dorado County. The infected deer was killed by a hunter ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been detected for the first time in free-ranging California wildlife. One hunter-harvested mule deer, a buck from El Dorado ...

THE CALIFORNIA Department of Fish and Wildlife is gearing up to capture various wild animals in Northern California and ...

Thousands of people signed a petition opposing a plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to curb the mule deer population that's wreaking havoc on a California island's ecosystem. "Catalina’s ...

Deer and elk in a portion of the Bay Area will be captured by helicopter and outfitted with GPS collars during operations ...

The number of mule deer, coyote and other wildlife getting hit by vehicles on California’s roadways is falling, signaling a decline in some key animal populations in the state, according to an annual ...

A group of mule deer photographed in 2008. An annual report shows that roadkills of California’s native deer, the mule deer, have dropped annually by 10% for the past seven years. And that’s not ...

The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence -- a discovery made by scientists using ...