Where are the Deer?

Back in the day, when I was working as a Park Ranger in a NM state wildlife refuge, I would smile to myself each Mule Deer season as I watched hunters cover miles hiking and looking throughout public lands for Mule Deer bucks. Each day, as I turned the corner to enter the park, I'd see a herd of Mule Deer bucks bedded up next to a water windmill on a nearby private cattle ranch. Over in Northeastern NM, near the Texas and Oklahoma borders, the elk, mule deer and antelope have all caught on...

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