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While large, multi-directional ears are formidable tools in a whitetail's bag of tricks, new studies are providing insight into the range, complexity—and limits—of deer hearing.

New York’s Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies anticipates a bad year for ticks in the northeastern United States. Its predictions are based on a simple trend: more mice mean more ticks, and an increase in Lyme disease the following year.

Are deer just another game species, or would their disappearance destroy hunting as we know it? Two studies reveal how much emphasis hunters place on deer, and what would happen if deer hunting ceased to exist.

Again and again, GPS-collar movement studies of whitetails find that mature bucks are individuals. There are types, sure. Just as some middle-aged men are homebodies and others like to be out and about, there are categories we can put bucks in—but that really doesn’t help you decipher the specific pattern of an individual deer.

Studies show that while 79 percent of Americans support ethical hunting, the number of hunters in the United States today is about the same as 50 years ago when there were half as many people. Why don’t more people hunt?

Hunting buddies provide more than a laugh and a hand at camp. Studies show they are a driving force behind our desire to go afield.

Though studies confirm feral hogs continue to destroy habitat to the detriment of other wildlife species, hunters too often are excluded from aiding in states’ hog management efforts.

If bagging a caribou in Quebec was ever on your bucket list, you’d better think about booking your trip now, as the 2017-18 caribou season may be the last time you’ll ever be able to hunt them.