Longhurst 1939 Odocoileus hemionus Stay a while Spring, 5750 ft., Columbia Co., Wash. July 29 are probably a little lower down and more in the bottoms of the canyons while the bucks and barren does keep more to the high ridges. The deer evidently travel quite a way to water as evidenced by their well worn trails to a water hole. There are many ele in this vicinity and they water at the same hole. On the summer range such as this the deer are widely scattered and are not banded together as they are in the late fall and winter. Their food in this area is composed mostly of browse from (Cowden stomach #430) The Oecanthus velutinus and willows and other low shrubbery. Sheep have grazed off most of the grass except in a few of the meadows and more densely wooded tracts of timber. While skinning the deer several parasitic (nematode?) worms were found embedded in the shin and deep fascia of the legs and hoofs.