Re: OT-White deer

Posted by Pitch on March 22, 2005 at 02:11:13 from (66.218.11.29):

In Reply to: Re: OT-White deer posted by Leland on March 21, 2005 at 22:47:24:

I worked at Seneca Army Depot for 15 years before it got closed down. There is a herd of about 700 deer on 11,000 acres with between 2 and 3 hundred of them being white with the odd piebald thrown in.
When the place was constructed in 1941 a few normal deer were inadvertantly contained when the security fences were put up. Some of these deer had a recessive gene that over the years through in breeding became dominant and manifested itself through the white fur. These deer are not albino but a mutant strain.
The Army held controlled hunts through out the years and the white ones were only allowed to be taken through a lottery system at a rate of only 5 or 6 per season. Funny how politicians or high Army brass seemed to win those lucky white lotteries every year. Due to the low numbers allowed to be taken there are some monster white bucks in there. The whites tend to be nontypical racks with a lot of them being palmetted.
The Army base closed down in the early '80's and now the the question is what to do with it. One camp wants to preserve it as a game refuge with a focus on maintaining the herd but the claim is maintaining the fence will cost 500,000 per year, something a poverty stricken county can't afford. The other camp wants to develop for industrial use which would compromise the integrity of the fence and the herd would be diluted with fresh genes leading to a demise of the white ones.

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