Story: Deer and deer farming

The deer stalker

The deer stalker

Stalking deer in remote environments remains popular today. The challenge of the hunt and the exhilarating landscape provides ample reward, despite the physical hardship. This hunter and deer are on a mountainside in the Southern Alps in 1962.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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Ken Drew, 'Deer and deer farming - From deer stalking to helicopters', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/15800/the-deer-stalker (accessed 21 April 2024)

Story by Ken Drew, published 24 Nov 2008