Mule Deer Foundation

09/02/2026

The Mule Deer Foundation extends our condolences to Randy Brooks’s family, friends, and the outdoor community following his passing. Randy’s passion for hunting, conservation, and the outdoors made a lasting and expansive impact on sporting and wildlife. Randy and Coni have been dear friends and supporters of the Mule Deer Foundation, and we are grateful for the friendship and commitment they have shared with our organization and the mule deer community.

Our thoughts are with Coni, the Brooks family, and all those who knew and loved Randy. His legacy will live on through his family and wild places he cared so much about.

09/01/2026

We're quite proud of our summer issue and whats to come in our fall issue. There's still time to get an issue of Mule Deer Foundation magazine this year! Head over to www.muledeer.org and become a member today and you'll get our fall, hunting themed issue to your mailbox (along with other perks via our Public Lands Month campaign with )! Join the herd, read the magazine, support mule deer conservation.

08/31/2026

Celebrate Public Lands Month with MDF & Access. Adventure. Legacy. campaign! Join MDF this September and get a FREE 1-year Infinite Outdoors Access+ membership ($59.99 value) and a chance to win an incredible outdoor prize package! Already a member? Make a donation of $35 or more to get the same Access+ membership and raffle entry. More access. More adventure. More conservation. Our legacy.

08/28/2026

The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) also identifies project areas where we want to grow deer and mitigate the severe wildfire risk in summer and transition ranges. In Lolo National Forest, Montana, MDF and the U.S. Forest Service went back to a 2024 project area this year to thin an additional 140+ acres of dense forest that improves forage and cover for all large ungulates, including mule deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep.

08/26/2026

"The Hoofprint Trail" series: Wildfire and Mule Deer Movements on Monroe Mountain, Utah

Utah’s 2025 Monroe Fire is a unique example of wildlife movements on burn scar areas. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) created this animation from GPS-collared deer, showing how remarkably similar their movements have been during spring migrations to summer ranges before and after the fire. Nearly one year post-fire, we can see deer still spent their time in fire scar areas, likely taking advantage of all the new vegetation popping up!

Monroe Mountain is in Fishlake National Forest. Our national forests hold much of the summer range that deer use across the West. We work with DWR and the U.S. Forest Service in Utah to make forests more resilient to wildfire for this very reason!

08/24/2026

Since 2024, the Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) and Idaho Fish and Game Salmon Region have conducted aerial cheatgrass treatments on private and state properties in Salmon, Idaho. Thanks to support from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Idaho Department of Lands, a dozen different private landowners partnered with MDF and IDFG to ensure a total of over 4,427 acres are now primed for native plants to thrive. The native sage-steppe landscape is critical for this wildlife rich region, and removing cheatgrass ensures these landscapes remain lush with native plants while simultaneously reducing the risk of severe wildfire.

Watch this latest video on our MDF Media YouTube Channel now!

Since 2024, the Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) and Idaho Fish and Game ...

08/21/2026

The Summer issue of Mule Deer Magazine explores “Fire on the Landscape,” the destruction, renewal, and resilience that wildfire brings to mule deer country. From the people working to restore habitat to the hunters, biologists, writers, and storytellers who help us understand the West, this issue is about what happens after the flames.
A huge thank you to all of our contributors who helped bring this issue to life: Brody Henderson, Steven Rinella, Katie Hill-Schurg, Remi Warren, Sage Marshall and everyone else who shared their time, stories, photography, and expertise with us. We couldn't make this magazine without you.

Get your Summer issue of Mule Deer Magazine and see what’s inside by becoming a member!

08/21/2026

Support mule deer conservation while entering for a chance to win an epic combo hunt in fall 2028! Hit the link in bio to enter before it's sold out!

08/20/2026

Keep doing great work in the Land of Enchantment and thank you for being great partners!