Braxton McCoy

across the entirety of the West.

Have been for years.

Nobody knows exactly why.

Most likely it's a combinatory thing.

It's more than just one thing.

Certainly loss of winter range is one of those things.

Mule deer only live in the Western United States and Canada.

That's it.

And from my... I don't like to pretend to be overly pious because...

I am a Christian, but I suck at it.

And I'm not trying to do a false humility thing.

I'm trying to be better, but I suck at it.

And I don't want to pretend to be overly pious.

But the book that we all adhere to, in theory, one of the initial commandments is to be a steward of creation.

So killing off a species, especially one as iconic...

as a mule deer I view as a sin, an actual sin.

And that's probably what would happen.

The only state I know of that's heard has reached stasis, now it's down from one million to about 400,000 animals last I read, is Wyoming.

And one of the things they did, I think Eastman's worked with the head biologist, a mule deer there,

One of the things they did was identify some tracks of land that were used as a migratory route, a couple of ridges, and those ridges had fences on them because they were privately owned.