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- Cowichan Lake. Feb. [February] 18/39 [1939]
Food. Browsing times. Salal. 256 deer minutes,
arbutus 30 deer min. [minutes], grass 25 deer
min [minutes], berberis 1/2 d.m [deer minutes], lichen 1 d.m. [deer minute],
huckleberry 1/2 dm [deer minute], manzanita 1/16 dm [deer minute]
fir 1/2 dm. [deer minute]
Food available in green form. Fir,
hemlock, jack pine, salal, berberis,
little grass, arbutus. Willow,
alder, maple, huckleberry in twig
form. Lichens + mosses on rocks.
Feb. [February] 19. Mt. [Mount] Masatchie [Mesachie]. noted quite heavy
browsing probably summer, of the
cliff brake Pellaea densa. [underlined] Also
arbutus, salal, + cedar, huckleberry
+ tree spirea.
Habits:- 10:30 four does fed for 20 min [minutes] on
open s. [south] facing sidehill then 1 lay down
on exposed knoll with back to log +
head facing west. Others continued
feeding + one passed out of sight over
hill, third lay down 11:18, lay between
two logs on open knoll, exposed s. [south]
head facing west. First doe at 11:31 moved
to a less exposed bed 50 yds [yards] from first,
lay down with head facing S.E. [southeast]
4th [fourth] doe fed slowly, moving perhaps 200
yards in 62 minutes + bedded down in
exposed location facing s. [south] head facing
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