Story, a small community tucked into the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains, is popular with tourists, deer and mountain lions, according to Wyoming Game and Fish Department biologist Dan Thiele.While visitors frequent Story’s shops and bed-and-breakfast inns, whitetail and mule deer frequent the nearby hills, fields and thickets -- drawn by abundant forage and the occasional handout from locals who just can’t resist putting food out for their hooved friends.“It can be a contentious issue, because people do love deer," Thiele said.What complicates things is that the large number of deer in the area have attracted another sort of visitor -- mountain lions, which find the abundant prey base nearly irresistible. Read the whole article.

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