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DEER AND PRONGHORN ANTELOPE

Beyond the end of the road there is a canyon. Vine maple, cottonwoods, and willows grow along the stream. Junipers grow on the shoulders of the ridge. The rimrock hides a trickles of water that seeps out of a crack in the rock. Lichens encrust the surface of the stone and there is a coolness that the rock holds even in the warmest months.

There are tracks at the little spring. Bighorn sheep and chukar water here. Mule deer come to this water too. At least the old bucks do. Does, fawns, and forkhorns take their water and feed from the valley.

The big bucks make their beds up tight against the rock walls of this canyon, the next, and others like it for miles. Some of these bucks will live out their lives in these canyons strongholds, only glimpsed at a distance by some shepherd or cowboy looking for his stock.

Sometimes the stockman tells a hunter about the wide-racked buck he saw. Mostly he doesn't.

The mule deer is the classic big game animal symbol of the west. It can be found everywhere from the forested Cascades in Washington and Oregon, east to the Great Plains, from Canada to Baja, California in Mexico. Its name is taken from its large ears, which resemble those of a mule.

It is the largest of the three main species of North American deer. Overall ...