For the past few years, residents of Meeker could gaze at nearby fields and see a most unusual mule deer: a white buck. In an area popular for hunting, locals lobbied to save him from a bullet. But plenty of cameras targeted him. Dan Meyers talks to Sonny Eatherton, who discovered the animal had died last month.
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