Wilderness Reserves 



Pitcher intends during the coming winter to feed 

 them alfalfa for game animals of several kinds 

 have become so plentiful in the neighborhood of 

 the Hot Springs, and the Major has grown so in- 

 terested in them, that he wishes to do something 

 toward feeding them during the severe winter. 

 After I had looked at the sheep to my heart's con- 

 tent, I walked back to my horse, my departure 

 arousing as little interest as my advent. 



Soon after leaving them we began to come 

 across black-tail deer, singly, in twos and threes, 

 and in small bunches of a dozen or so. They were 

 almost as tame as the mountain sheep, but not 

 quite. That is, they always looked alertly at me, 

 and though if I stayed still they would graze, they 

 kept a watch over my movements and usually 

 moved slowly off when I got within less than forty 

 yards of them. Up to that distance, whether on 

 foot or on horseback, they paid but little heed to 

 me, and on several occasions they allowed me to 

 come much closer. Like the bighorn, the black- 

 tails at this time were grazing, not browsing; but 

 I occasionally saw them nibble some willow buds. 

 During the winter they had been browsing. As 

 we got close to the Hot Springs we came across 

 several white-tail in an open, marshy meadow. 

 They were not quite as tame as the black-tail, al- 



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