On Saturday evening, Alaska Wildlife Troopers made contact with two hunters as they emerged from the woods in Cedar Pass near Crawfish Inlet. When they spoke with the two hunters at 6:15 pm, the hunters told troopers that they had been pursuing a deer that they had shot at. The men, identified as Trevin […]
A Klawock man who shot and killed a deer with a pellet gun mid-October on Prince of Wales Island has now been charged with multiple charges Alaska Wildlife Troopers revealed on Monday. According to troopers, it was on October 15th that 33-year-old Michael Howard of Klawock drove up alongside a doe in the Mary Jackson […]
Alaska had been a state for one year in 1960 when its Department of Fish and Game conducted a wolf-planting experiment on Coronation Island in Southeast Alaska. At the time, the remote 45-square-mile island exposed to the open Pacific had a high density of blacktailed deer and no wolves. That summer, biologists from Fish […]
Two white-tailed deer seen in 2015 on a wildlife camera in eastern Washington.University of Washington As gray wolves continue to make a strong comeback in Washington state, their presence can’t help but impact other animals — particularly the ones these large carnivores target as prey. White-tailed deer and mule deer, two distinct species common in […]