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Mule deer gathering before starting their spring migration

By Office of Communications 2012 (approx.)
Mule deer gather on their winter range before beginning their spring migration north through the Wyoming Range mountains
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Mule deer does and fawns gather on their winter range just before beginning their spring migration north through the Wyoming Range mountains, Wyoming, USA. 

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