The trail continues to ascend, passing a small lake named Laguna Cochapata in an area that is recognized as deer habitat.

Cover boards were developed as early as 1938 by Wight (1938) to study white-tailed deer habitat.

The development, proposed by Southview Associates and John Lese of Rye, N.Y., would have been on 88 acres in a protected deer habitat.

Nor did Southview employ "all feasible and reasonable means of preventing or lessening the destruction and imperilment of the deer habitat," the board found.

More and more Americans seeking residences and recreation are moving into deer habitat, in suburban and rural wooded areas.

The fire was threatening a trout fishery along with valuable deer habitat and recently transplanted bighorn sheep and wild turkeys.

Mr. Littell said the state's wildlife management policy has not adequately reflected the fact that deer habitats keep shrinking because of development.

But no plants are immune, especially where deer habitat is being crowded out by development and herds are forced to move into yards and gardens when their natural food supply is diminshed.

However, deer hunting has long since died out as a tradition with the loss of deer habitat.

Sam and I sit for three hours on the brink of the deer habitat.