Source: Times Union

COEYMANS — In the horrifying seconds during which a deer hurtled toward their windshield, Heather Sherman told her family, "We're done."

The deer shattered the windshield. The five passengers had no time to scream.

But it wasn't until after the family pulled over and Sherman reached into the cargo area to get a blanket and paper towels that she found the doe inside the SUV. It had soared past two front-seat and three back-seat passengers, but caused only minor cuts and bruises.

"How we survived this is beyond me," Sherman said. "I looked at my boyfriend, and he looked at me. We were both covered in blood."

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Source: Star Tribune

LANGLADE, Wis. - A motorist relying on a GPS navigation unit found out the hard way that technology is not always the answer.

Sheriff's officials said the Oshkosh woman was going from the White Lake area to Laona through heavily wooded Langlade County Tuesday when the best routing from the GPS sent her onto a road that forked into a snowmobile trail.

Several miles down the frozen path she stopped and couldn't turn around in about a foot and a half of snow surrounding the car.

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In January, Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. released a report – prepared in 2007 for the Bureau of Land Management, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and Questar Exploration and Production – documenting mule deer trends in Wyoming’s Pinedale Anticline, an area undergoing natural gas development. Whitetails have not been affected.

The report focused on the Mesa mule deer population, the population within the larger Sublette herd that is in close proximity to natural gas development operations. The researchers found a 30 percent decline in the Mesa population during a seven-year period (2001-2007) of intensive energy development.

Energy development at the Mesa site resulted in 1,520 acres of direct habitat loss, primarily at well pad sites, which accounted for less than 3 percent of the Mesa area. Indirect habitat loss, however, extended much farther. The model-averaged estimate predicted that mule deer avoided energy development sites by 2.6 to 7.5 km, depending on the level of human activity.

In the September issue of Deer & Deer Hunting, field editor Les Davenport will investigate another trend concerning Western deer. Be sure not to miss this article, "Save a Mulie, Shoot a Whitetail," on sale at newsstands beginning later this summer.

— Daniel E. Schmidt

Source: Lewis Town Sentinel

LEWISTOWN - Mifflin County Regional Police worked to release a white-tailed deer that became stuck in a fence on Tuesday afternoon in the backyard of a residence on North Grand Street.



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A good friend of mine from northeast Wisconsin has had quite the shed hunting season already this year. He and his son have had the good fortune of having several acres of standing corn that have attracted bucks from all over the area.

He took this photo of this year's collection. Check it out:

— Daniel E. Schmidt

Source: MSNBC

Where in the world was Matt Lauer Monday morning? Brazil? Cambodia? The exotic Seychelle Islands?

Somewhere considerably less scenic, unfortunately -- the TODAY host was laid up with an injured shoulder after a mishap while bicycling on Long Island. "He was riding his bike over the weekend and he had a run-in with a deer," co-host Meredith Vieira explained.

Vieira added that although Lauer's shoulder was hurt, his sense of humor was intact: He joked in an email that he thought “the deer was hired by the competition.”

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