Articles written by Paul Meyers Wildlife Biologist Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge

Paul Meyers Wildlife Biologist Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge|May 28, 2014

The last five years have seen remarkable strides toward the recovery of the Columbian white-tailed deer in our area. Evidence of this is the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent recommendation to downlist the Columbia River distinct population subspecies (DPS) of Columbian white-tailed deer (CWTD) from endangered to threatened. The deer population of the lower Columbian Floodplain is still listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Two of the distinct subpopulations, Tennasillahe Island and Puget Island meet the definition of b...