Mule deer: Counting heads in the foothills

A half-dozen mule deer grazed on tender, newly sprouted cheat grass in the northern Wenatchee Foothills Friday, oblivious to the dozen high school students studying them through binoculars from about a half-mile away.

“Oh! I see them!” Mayra Lagunas said to her friend Reyna Garibay, training her binocs and struggling to distinguish her tawny subjects from the mottled colors of the hillside. “Is that, like them? Their butts?”

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