Show devils slide residents protect deer by SIRS MRS II if T HIGH DEVILS SLIDE the plight of deer in the mountains was certainly brought to our attention with force saturday afternoon when helen miller elizabeth bartlett rhea stevens and I 1 decided to take a walk up lost creek As we passed the cement plant scores of deer struggled to climb the hills around us they had been trying to find food in brush that support one deer let alone a herd we went around a bend in the road as quickly as possible so as not to frighten gnem too much and found a fawn lying in the snow too weak to move helen and I 1 ran back to the plant while rhea and elizabeth stayed with the fawn mr air hooten plant superintendent must have thought that we were out of our minds when we dashed into the office but he and lorin miller came to our aid lorin got a company truck and we started u p the road picking up ray dickson on the way you can imagine how weak and tiny the fawn was when ray could easily carry it in his arms through knee deep snow to the waiting truck when we got back to tte the slide helen warmed some milr while lorin bedded the animal on a pile of straw in the basement the fawn was so weak that lorin had to massage its throat to make it swallow the milk while we were all trying to help harold anderson came in with another fawn ile he had picked it up in the plant yard an and carried it all the way home in his arms by nightfall night fall four more fawns were brought in and taken care of not one of them could stand up the animals were fed every few hours through the night and by morn morning ing a few could get to their feet sunday moa lotfe fawns were brought in and fed As soon as the snow melts so that they can find food the animals will be taken out and released in the hills one will have to travel far to find folks more compassionate than th those Os e who live at devils slide |