Black-tail deer now have some more heft among humans, with the announcement this week of a new nonprofit organization designed to speak up on their behalf.
A subsidiary of the existing Mule Deer Foundation, the Blacktail Deer Foundation made public Wednesday targets what the organization’s founders call an “underrepresented” animal found along the West Coast.
“They’re a kind of mysterious deer,” Greg Sheehan, president and CEO of both foundations, said in an interview Thursday. “They live in a heavily wooded, call it a rain forest-type area, and they’re quite solitary in their nature.”
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He added that the black-tail deer “don’t spend a lot of time out. They live quiet lives.”
