. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 334 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME In Sequoia National Park, I observed tliat squaw-root {Cantni gairdneri) often known in the West as "Queen Anne's lace," and is quite different from "Queen Anne's lace" of eastern United States, and grows abundantly in both Round ^Meadow and Crescent Meadow form- ing a white "bedspread" over tlie meadows. Late in Se])tember, 1933, the white flowering heads of this plant were e
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 334 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME In Sequoia National Park, I observed tliat squaw-root {Cantni gairdneri) often known in the West as "Queen Anne's lace," and is quite different from "Queen Anne's lace" of eastern United States, and grows abundantly in both Round ^Meadow and Crescent Meadow form- ing a white "bedspread" over tlie meadows. Late in Se])tember, 1933, the white flowering heads of this plant were extensively eaten by mule deer. WINTER Winter months const it iitc tlie lean season for mule deei'. IJy the first ])art of the winter, the deer have usually come down from the. iFiG. 130. Buck eating dead sc'ilge in ivintcr. Sedge was rarely eaten in summer. Sequoia National Park, December IS, 1929. W'ildlife Division No. 210. high summer range and are found at low altitudes in the foothills. Normally, the seasonal fall rains insure a good growth of fresh annual grasses in the foothills by December and this green food supi)ly is heavily utilized to supplement their diet of browse. This heavy utiliza- tion of green grass in early winter by both California and southern mule deer has been set forth at length under the chapter on "Deer as Eaters of ; It may seem paradoxical, but fresh green grass is an important and regular article of diet of mule deer in winter in central and southern California. For the Rocky Mountain mule deer which winter east of the Sierra Nevada, green grass is in winter just a memory. In Sequoia National Park, on December 18, 1929, I explored an acre thicket of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Co
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