While outdoor recreation of this region has been promoted from nearly time immemorial, the kinds of activities has evolved over the years. One of those aspects highlighted was hunting—especially deer. This was after all prior to the late 1970s when the California Department of Fish & Game overhauled the hunting seasons, limits and zones. In a 1961, Lassen County pamphlet with the lead in “Lassen County – Where your vacation begins, but never ends.” One of the first sentences: “Hunting is a paradise in Lassen County, where a total of 5,348 deer were taken in 1959, more than any other county in the state.”
In a sign of changing times, while several decades ago it was a rarity to see deer inside the Susanville City Limits. Today, one sees more deer inside the City of Susanville, than to be found in the country side.