National Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge
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Since its creation in 1957, the Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge has protected the herd and helped increase the population from 50 to an estimated 800-1000.

The Key deer is a subspecies of white-tailed deer that lives only on a few islands in the Florida Keys, mostly on 16-square-mile Big Pine Key, the base for the National Key Deer Refuge.

Key deer, at maturity, stand about 30 inches tall at the shoulder and weigh a maximum of only 80 pounds for males and 63 pounds for females, roughly half the weight of the average northern continental whitetail.

(Photos courtesy of the US Fish & Wildlife Service/National Key Deer Refuge)

http://www.fws.gov/nationalkeydeer/

See also:
Key Deer Protection Alliance
NoNamekey.org

Last modified: March 13, 2007

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