Basin wiki · Animals

Mule deer

Odocoileus hemionus

The large-eared deer of canyon edges and the Morongo Valley corridor, mostly at dusk.

Mule deer at a fence line — Photo by The High Fin Sperm Whale · CC BY-SA 3.0

In the basin

Same corridor sentence as bighorn and mountain lion. Deer on Highway 62 and canyon roads are a dusk collision risk. Feeding them pulls a mountain lion’s food to the house. Wikipedia and CDFW’s ungulate page have the living-with notes.

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