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1982
national
Florida deer-hunt delay
hurt herd, officials say
United Press International
FORT LAUDERDALE,
I Fla. — Officials who gave up a
(‘‘mercy hunt” of 2,200 starv-
|ing deer say intervention by
preservationists allowed the
animals to become “deci
mated” before they could be
saved and it will take years to
1 rebuild the herd.
“I’m afraid there were no
real winners in this whole
situation, despite the well-
intentioned efforts of a lot of
people,” Col. Robert Brantly,
executive diector of the Fresh
water Fish and Game Com
mission, said Monday.
The commission gave up
its "mercy kill” of 2,200 deer
starved by high water in its
second day, saying there was
no hope for saving the herd.
“It will take us time to study
the data we have collected and
determine the real value of
what was done,” Brantly said.
The official count for the
two-day operation was only
720 deer killed and 17 deer
rescued by animal lovers, who
complained they did not have
enough airboats or personnel
to do a proper job.
Jack Kassewitz Jr., who led
the rescue effort, said “there’s
no way in hell” his small band
of volunteers with only a few
airboats could save 100 deer,
as it had hoped, between Sun
day and noon Tuesday.
Fish and game officers had
said there were 5,500 deer
starving in the Everglades
where heavy rains had co
vered much of thir food and
forced them to high ground
where they had to compete
for sustenance.
They said if 2,200 deer
were killed in an emergency
hunt, the remainder of the
animals would have more
food to eat and the herd
would survive. But critic
Cleveland Amory and other
preservationists took the mat
ter to court, saying the deer
should be relocated instead.
U.S. District Judge Eugene
Spellman delayed the hunt
from Friday morning until
Sunday and Brantly said that
might have doomed the deer.
He said the delay allowed
the herd to become “deci
mated” before the kill began.
Brantly canceled two more
days of hunting in the north
ern half of the area containing
the starving deer.
“We have to accept the loss
of the deer in the north,”
Brantly said. “The delay
brought about by the suit has
thinned out the herd in the
north to almost total decima
tion.”
Commission spokesman
Biff Lampton said it would
take years to rebuild the herd.
“We were just now recover
ing from a 1978 die-off, which
should give you an indication
of how long it will take,”
Lampton said.
“We’re sure there will be a
core of animals left in the area
on which we can build a future
herd,” he said. “But right
now, we can’t say how many
are left.”
Although the band of 50
animal lovers headed by Mia
mian Kassewitz only relocated
19 deer during the two-day
hunt, he said the effort was a
success.
“The goal was to show we
could take the animals out
alive,” Kassewitz said. “We did
that.”
Brantly disagreed.
“Kassewitz showed he can
remove individual animals
but if you remove 15 or 50
animals and that’s all you do,
you have no effect on the
herd,” he said.
Utah waste site studied
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — The
Department of Energy plans to
go ahead with a limited study of
the Gibson dome area as a possi
ble high-level nuclear waste
dump, despite a pledge of no
cooperation from Utah’s gov
ernor.
Gov. Scott Matheson last
week told his department heads
to refuse to issue any permits to
the DOE for testing at Gibson
dome, because the DOE refused
to conduct a full-scale environ
mental impact statement before
the testing.
Kenneth Rhea, an associate
district manager for the Bureau
of Land Management in Moab,
said the BLM decided Monday
to allow the DOE to proceed
with all testing that does not re
quire a state permit.
He said those tests include
“seismic lines” to examine deep
subsurface geology at the site —
which has a salt formation some
2,800 feet below the eastern
edge of Canyonlands National
Park — and some trench
digging to examine the surface
geology.
When Matheson issued the
memorandum Thursday, offi
cials predicted the order would
effectively block the DOE’s
plans to study the area, which is
one of four sites under consider
ation to store high-level nuclear
waste. Other sites are in Texas,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
Lightning strikes
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FRANCONIA, N.H. — A
pghtning bolt smacked into a
roup of 12 hikers on an Out-
tiard Bound expedition in the
Vhite Mountains Monday after-
loon, instantly killing the co-
eader and knocking about half
he others to the ground, au-
horities said Tuesday.
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nedical treatment.
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:o-leader, 24, from Hanover,
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utedatMil g ut j ier h us b aiu | was the
mocken group leader and he spent
ihree hours trying in vain to re
agent Lm suscitate her about 200 feet be-
otherpeojl low the summit of the 5,000-foot
Gilmore * Ml. Lincoln, officials said.
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ased on hist
euvers in the area airlifted the
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the mountains to the hospital
while the others spent the night
at a mountain hut about two
miles from the accident site on
nearby Mt. Lafayette.
“From what we understand
the group was proceeding along
a ridge when the weather began
to deteriorate and they heard a
thunderclap,” said Peter Wil-
lauer, director of the Hurricane
Island (Maine) Outward Bound
School.
“They apparently tried to get
to a less exposed area and then
the bolt of lightning struck the
instructor. She must have been
hit directly. Approximately half
the others were knocked to the
ground and when they got to
her she had no pulse and was not
breathing.”
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