[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, BIOTA: Seneca Army Depot's (NY) white deer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fate of famous white deer in question after base closure

by Matthew Daneman
USA TODAY 
December 16, 2014

ROMULUS, N.Y. - For much of its history, the Seneca Army Depot was home to everything from U.S. Army munitions to radioactive materials used in the Manhattan Project and the nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

In recent years, the most notable inhabitants of the 10,000 acres nestled in farm and winery country have been the ghost-like white deer there.

A variation of white-tailed deer, the estimated 200 white deer roaming the property are not albino — they have brown eyes, not pink. They live alongside another 600 brown white-tailed deer, kept at arm's length from from traffic, hunters, and tourists by the fence around the base.

But the Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains the fence and the property while doing environmental cleanup work in the now-closed base, is scheduled to leave by the end of 2016, raising fears about the fate of the land, that protective fence, and the deer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/16/fate-of-famous-white-deer-a-question-mark/20465873/

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Lenny Siegel
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