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English: Individual vine showing complete removal of leaves and some damage to berries. Vineyard of Giuseppe Luchesi, northwest of Yountville, Napa County, California. Photo by T. I. Storer, October 11, 1930

Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga18_1932cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 139

out the first tender shoots. At the same time a few deer may do infinetely
more damage than a larger number later in the season. It is logical
to assume, however, that a greater number of deer live at the farmer's
expense during that period when natural forageis scarcest, turning to
cultivated crops kept green by irrigiation in lieu of, or as supplement
to, the wild forage.
Opinion seems to be that deer damage is definitely on the increase
in California. A few persons report that no change is observable
or that there is a decrease in the amount of damage. The desctructive

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Fig. 30. Individual vine showing complete removal of leaves and
some damage to berries. Vineyard of Giuseppe Luchesi,
northwest of Yountville, Napa Country, California. Photo by
by T. I. Storer, October 11, 1930.

activities of the deer seem to have actually come to a standstill or to
be decreasing in only one area, Tuolumne County. This may be
accounted for by the fact that the deer population of that region has
not yet recovered from the reduction which occured during the
epidemic of foot and mouth desease in 1924–1925, when over 22,000 deer
were slaughtered in successfully preventing the further spread of that

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