At about 4 p.m. every Winter afternoon, a small herd of mule deer meanders from the sagebrush and snow-clad flanks of Western Colorado’s Mt. Lamborn onto the numerous irrigated pastures below. There, they eat everything they can — dried grass, alfalfa and exotic weeds — to combat the nightly cold and the lingering effects of last Fall’s rut and hunt. Sometimes, just as the grass is turning green in the Spring , they succumb….
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Paul Larmer is HCN’s Executive Director
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