May 2 - 4, 2024

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The sponsors and vendors of Mule Deer Days are not just suppliers of sports products. They are pillars of conservation, symbolizing the heart of our event. Mule Deer Days aims not just to amplify wildlife and hunting conservation, but also to show how every business, big or small, can play an essential role in making a change. Their dedication truly touches our hearts and we warmly invite you to stand with us in backing their significant work in conservation.

Mule Deer Conservation

The purpose for this event.

  • 2023 MDD event allocated $100,000 to Iron Mountain Juniper Control Treatment Project

    The Iron Mountain Juniper Control is one of the individual projects under the umbrella of the Southwest Wyoming Mule Deer Habitat effort. The project is located in the Iron Mountain portion of the Little Mountain Ecosystem within the South Rock Spring Mule Deer Herd Unit. The project aims to maintain the integrity and value of sagebrush-grassland and mixed mountain shrub habitats for mule deer and other wildlife by removing encroaching juniper trees. Treatment results are expected to maintain a blend of quality deer feeding areas in proximity to bedding and security cover provided by established juniper woodlands. Project implementation will involve crews hand cutting and piling juniper trees on 1,100 acres of encroached shrub habitat. The piled trees will be allowed months to dry, and fire crews will then conduct prescribed slash pile burns during the winter months. Juniper treatments are planned to begin during the 2024 field season. To date, these funds have leverage matching funds from other entities. The project will now be doubled in size with $1.2 million being allocated.

  • 2023 MDD event allocated $46,900 to US189 South Kemmerer Highway Wildlife Crossing Project

    Mule deer and pronghorn are negatively impacted along this stretch of Highway 189. This conclusion is backed up through vehicle collision reports from WYDOT, and these movements are exhibited from collared mule deer, both from the Uinta and Wyoming Range mule deer herds. The right-of-way (ROW) fencing along Highway 189 is almost exclusively net-wire which creates a movement barrier for pronghorn. This project will promote connectivity by benefiting migration patterns along with protecting wildlife on winter range. This project has now been fully funded.

  • 2023 MDD event allocated $49,910 to the Muley Fanatic Foundation Putting the ‘U’ in Hunt Program

    The Muley Fanatic Foundation (MFF) has organized a program, “Putting the ‘U’ in Hunt”. This program is in partnership with the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission to receive complimentary Commissioner Licenses to place youths with life-threatening or terminal illnesses in the field.