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30, 1930, I found that the larger bucks were high up near timberline, 

 two large bucks being seen on the very summit above Silliman Pass 

 (11,400 feet). A few days later, on September 1, 1930, I crossed 

 Elizabeth Pass (11,650 feet). As I climbed up out of Deadman Canyon, 

 the highest elevation at which deer tracks or droppings could be found 

 was 10,000 feet. However, the bare granite basins on both sides of 

 Elizabeth Pass, together with the broken slides, appear to be effective 

 barriers which discourage deer from crossing the pass. Investigation 

 of the high granite ridges in that vicinity showed that in late summer 

 deer, especially the big bucks, regularly reach an elevation of 11,000 

 feet. 



Grinnell and Taylor (MS) report deer tracks being found as high 

 as 11,500 feet, in the vicinity of Mount Whitney. In the Yosemite 

 region, at 10,400 feet, near Saddlebag Lake, I found numerous fresh 

 deer tracks on July 28, 1929. In this locality the altitudinal summer 

 range of deer was found to reach 11,000 feet. On July 23, I found 

 fresh tracks of six deer, all apparently does and fawns with no large 

 bucks in the entire group, at an elevation of just under 10,000 feet near 

 the upper belt of dense lodgepole pine trees at the west base of Mount 

 Dana. The freshly cropped vegetation showed that these deer had 

 browsed along the edge of a green alpine meadow and had eaten both 

 fresh green grass and shrubby vegetation. 



