When Deer Aren’t So Dear
This post comes from Archives Specialist, James. While working with a researcher, he found some interesting records that relate to the deer population in the Grand Canyon National Park. Turns out over the years, they had become a nuisance, eating decorative flowers and jumping in and out of hotel windows.
Because of this, the Park began to “direct control” the deer population, tag and transplant other deer, and monitor the overall health of deer in the Park.
Images from our records show the trapping and tagging of a deer and the fetal development of young deer found inside of does who were pregnant when they were killed.
Come check more of the National Park Service records we hold here at the National Archives at Riverside! For further research into conservation at the Grand Canyon National Park, please visit: https://www.npca.org/parks/grand-canyon-national-park
Series: Central Subject Files, 1919 - 1981. Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006 (National Archives Identifier 1532654).
Item: Letter from Victor Patrosso, Manager of the El Tovar Hotel to M. R. Tillotson, Superintendent of the Grand Canyon National Park, 3/26/1928. File Unit: N1427 Deer. Series: Central Subject Files, 1919 - 1981. Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. (National Archives Identifier 27753710).
