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Coast Deer study.
Mt. [Mount] Arrowsmith, V.I. [Vancouver Island], B.C. [British Columbia] Sept. [September] 10-11 1938
Deer tracks were noticed as
high up as any vegetation
extended. The highest actually
seen were about 5800'. At this
elevation tracks seen were
those of large deer, generally
bucks. At 5000' tracks of
a doe and one fawn. Food
plants definitely seen to be
cropped were Phleum alpinum, [underlined]
Mimulus Lewisii [underlined] (extensively browsed),
Vaccinium ovatifolium, [underlined] Erigeron salsuginosus
Same Local. [location] Oct. 6-8 [words crossed out] Sept [September] 27-28
Saw 3 bucks, all forked
horns as far as could be
seen. Of these one was in
winter pelage another still in
summer pelage. Two of these
bucks were together + when
disturbed made off together
along the mountain side in
full view for upwards of
20 minutes.
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