The number of deer harvested in the Thumb during this year’s firearm whitetail hunting season that lasted for two weeks in November, was staggering. I’m so old I remember “having” to travel up North ...

In 16 years of deer hunting, 28-year-old Dave Farrand of Brainerd had never shot a deer worthy of mounting. Soon, however, Farrand will have quite a bit more than a shoulder mounted deer in his house.

Hidden in the redwoods above Watsonville, a shy and ghostly beauty once drew crowds but is now destined to live, and die, alone. The small white doe is the sole survivor of a large and cherished herd ...