While we have a greater number of deer now than everbefore, their distribution is vastly different from what it wasin colonial times. When the white man first came to ourshores, the deer were scattered, virtually, all over the country.The law of the survival of the fittest and nature's balance ofpower caused a natural distribution of deer that assuredplenty of range and food for them.
Now, there are no deer to speak of in the great MississippiValley. * If we name the states in which only a few deer arefound, the number surprises us. If we have more deer nowthan ever before, where are they?
East of the Mississippi, one herd is located in the New Eng-land states, principally in the state of Maine; New York statehas a large herd in the Catskills and Adirondacks; Pennsyl-vania has a great herd, principally in the AppalachianMountains; West Virginia, in her mountain regions; Mich-igan, in the northern section, especially the northern penin-sula; Wisconsin, in the pine and lake country to the north;Minnesota, in the lake region to the north. These are theplaces where the great herds have taken their stands. Thereare some deer along the coastal regions of the Carolinas,Georgia, and Florida; a few are found in the lowlands andthe canebrakes of the lower Mississippi River and in the
