Male Columbian Black-tailed Deer.

ID: 170 ~ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_deer#/media/File:Odocoileus_hemionus_5932.JPG

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Despite periods of population crisis, deer like this are a fairly common sight on the San Juan Islands today- so much so that many hunters get permission from locals to hunt the burgeoning deer population.

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Too Many Deer – Environmental history and Odocoileus hemionus

By David Sommer

Humans have inhabited the San Juan Islands for at least 13,000 years. The first peoples didn’t appear to rely on fishing, rather they hunted land animals like deer. The Columbian black-tail deer are San Juan’s largest native land mammal, making them…