Columbian blacktail deer are the subspecies of blacktails native to the Bay Area and normally inhabit a 100-mile-wide band of woodlands and coastal mountains extending inland from the Pacific Ocean.
The man from Eugene, Oregon and has successfully hunted blacktail deer for over 30 years.
It was a black-tailed deer, the small coastal sub-species of the mule deer, which is found throughout western North America.
While black-tailed deer form the majority of the wolves' prey, the researcher was surprised at the diversity of their diet.
Upstream there were beavers, river otters, and, though we didn't see them, brown bears, moose, Sitka black-tailed deer, mountain goats, and wolverines.
He just holed up, cooked frozen beef, and kept notes on the black-tailed deer that fed on the hay outside his window.
You'll hike through soaring redwoods, glimpsing an occasional black-tailed deer or belted kingfisher, but the payoff is the view down the green gorge of Big Sur Valley.
Hair loss syndrome is a debilitating condition that causes blacktail deer to constantly chew at their fur.
Although Alaska is home to bigger, more dangerous and more glamorous big game, Sitka blacktail deer hold a special place in the hearts of some hunters.
These are the smaller blacktail deer that inhabit the coastal range from Mid-California to Alaska.