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Dona Hilkey Following the death of the white buck in the fall of 2006, this light colored fawn, seen with its normal colored twin, appeared in the spring of 2007 around Meeker, Colorado but by the next winter it had disappeared. Dona Hilkey Looks like the buck may have bred before it died. (Photo Courtesy of Dona Hilkey, Dona Hilkey Dona Hilkey The head was saved and mounted and now hangs in the local office of the Colorado Department of Wildlife. No one had shot it, nor had it been struck by a vehicle a limited necropsy performed by the wildlife department revealed that it likely died of injuries sustained in fighting with other bucks during the rut. In the fall of 2006, when it was 4½, the buck moved farther northeast near, ironically, the local cemetery, where it was found dead following hunting season. It was safe from hunting there, not just because it was on private land, but because locals had an unwritten agreement to leave it alone.
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In the fall of 2005 it was frequently seen from Highway 64 when it took up semi-permanent residence in a field west of the town. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Richter, from the book White Deer: Ghosts of the Forest, Jeff Richter This leucistic (white) mule deer buck was the most famous deer around Meeker, Colorado, from the time it was a fawn. These deer get through the fall because Wisconsin is one of at least a dozen states in which it is illegal to take an albino or white deer, even though biologists would classify them as genetic “maladaptions” - whiteness is a rare quality in deer because it makes them too visible, and inviting, a target for natural predators. Greg Doggett Marion Jacobs Marion Jacobs Marion Jacobs Marion Jacobs In the woods around Boulder, Wisconsin, is a well known herd of albino white-tailed deer.