Each student in the fifth grade has selected a Stillwater County animal as his or her research topic. Most of the animals are those that can be seen frequently, seasonally, or occasionally on the trail's road or nearby fields and trees.
The mule deer is popular in Stillwater County. Mule deer like aspen and mixed conifer forest.
They eat ranges of vegetation. Their food includes grass, corn, silage, wheat, bitter bushes, mountain mahogany, chokeberry, and serviceberry.
The mule deer aren’t a species of concern.
A way to tell if it’s a mule deer is that they are very dark, have like a black color on their forehead and they have really big ears. Mule deer antlers fork out. Whitetail antlers basket around. Whitetail are light color.
Deer like going down to silage in winter because they can’t get to the grass.
Mule Deer -- Odocoileus hemionus. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural History Heritage
Program. Montana Fish Wildlife, [and] Parks. May 7, 2018 from http://FieldGuide.Mt.gov
By Wyatt S.