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and we hope did, mark the low point in this decline, for a number of 

 local informants have recently expressed to the writer the view that 

 there were more deer in the area in 1933 than in the previous year. 

 Althoufjh many people have been interviewed on the subject, it is 



Fig. 15. Summer range of the Rocky Mountain mule deer in northeastern California. 



difficult to ascertain the extent of the recent depletion, however, the 

 consensus of such opinion seems to indicate a reduction of about 15 

 per cent in the herd in the fall of 1932 over a similiar time in 1928. 



