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Blacktail Deer Fact: The most serious problem facing deer in Southeast Alaska is the loss of important winter habitat (old growth forest) due to clearcut logging. In many areas throughout Southeast Alaska, clearcut logging is allowed every 90-125 years. Although clearcuts less than 15 years old provide forage for deer during snow free periods, forage is often unavailable in these open areas during the winter.

Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led; more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads, than one
Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then
(The coaser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.---I cannot paint
What then I was. The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep gloomy wood,
Their colors and their forms, were then to me
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, nor any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.---That time is past
~~~William Wordsworth~~~