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LAST EDITED ON May-18-12 AT 07:16PM (MST)[p]How goes it,
I rarely take the time & effort to start a new topic or reply to a post here, unless it's something that is either genuinely bothering me or infuriating...in this particular case it's somewhere in the middle. I work at the 'Skyline Coal Mine', located just South of Scofield Reservoir and North-West of Price...during the 50 mile drive to & from work every day I along with my colleagues see a lot of Elk and Deer on the side of the highway and unfortunately we lose a lot of these animals to collisions with vehicles, and even I myself am an accidental contributor to that problem. One morning last week after getting off of graveyard shift, just North of the town of Scofield I noticed a small buck laying right beside the highway...my first reaction was I found it odd for a deer to be laying there as opposed to standing & feeding, so I flipped my truck around and went back to have a look. Turns out this buck had just been hit and survived the ordeal, he looked pretty beat up with blood covering his head and missing one of his fuzzy antlers...I could tell he was in too much pain to care I that was even there, he just looked at me as if to say "please put me out of my misery". Having encountered this same exact situation with a cow-Elk a couple winters ago I took the same steps as I did back then, but much to my surprise upon what I saw on my way to work this evening...I'm really upset and wonder if my concern was even justified or worthy to begin with.
The particular day in question when I found this battered buck was a Sunday morning, I knew that no one would be answering phones at the DWR office in Price so instead I called the UHP branch in town...I began to explain the situation to the dispatcher on the other end and she assured me that she would contact either a state trooper or county sheriff to come 'take care of the deer', I didn't want someone else to get too close and spook the buck causing another accident. My initial thoughts were that whoever it was that arrived on the scene would finish off the buck, would then take the next steps to make sure that the meat from that buck would be donated to a local family in the community that needs it...rather than wasting it by letting the carcass rot beside the highway. Turns out I was entirely too trusting & optimistic, because on my way to the coal mine tonight I saw him again...only this time bloated and rolled over, exactly the opposite of what I had anticipated would take place. So with all of that said, I'm asking the rest of you sincerely...am I over reacting or were my thoughts & concerns rational and justified, in hopes that someone of authority would naturally have the same inclination towards utilizing the meat for someone in need...or do you think my call went completely ignored by UHP and no one even bothered to show up and the deer died on it's own?
I rarely take the time & effort to start a new topic or reply to a post here, unless it's something that is either genuinely bothering me or infuriating...in this particular case it's somewhere in the middle. I work at the 'Skyline Coal Mine', located just South of Scofield Reservoir and North-West of Price...during the 50 mile drive to & from work every day I along with my colleagues see a lot of Elk and Deer on the side of the highway and unfortunately we lose a lot of these animals to collisions with vehicles, and even I myself am an accidental contributor to that problem. One morning last week after getting off of graveyard shift, just North of the town of Scofield I noticed a small buck laying right beside the highway...my first reaction was I found it odd for a deer to be laying there as opposed to standing & feeding, so I flipped my truck around and went back to have a look. Turns out this buck had just been hit and survived the ordeal, he looked pretty beat up with blood covering his head and missing one of his fuzzy antlers...I could tell he was in too much pain to care I that was even there, he just looked at me as if to say "please put me out of my misery". Having encountered this same exact situation with a cow-Elk a couple winters ago I took the same steps as I did back then, but much to my surprise upon what I saw on my way to work this evening...I'm really upset and wonder if my concern was even justified or worthy to begin with.
The particular day in question when I found this battered buck was a Sunday morning, I knew that no one would be answering phones at the DWR office in Price so instead I called the UHP branch in town...I began to explain the situation to the dispatcher on the other end and she assured me that she would contact either a state trooper or county sheriff to come 'take care of the deer', I didn't want someone else to get too close and spook the buck causing another accident. My initial thoughts were that whoever it was that arrived on the scene would finish off the buck, would then take the next steps to make sure that the meat from that buck would be donated to a local family in the community that needs it...rather than wasting it by letting the carcass rot beside the highway. Turns out I was entirely too trusting & optimistic, because on my way to the coal mine tonight I saw him again...only this time bloated and rolled over, exactly the opposite of what I had anticipated would take place. So with all of that said, I'm asking the rest of you sincerely...am I over reacting or were my thoughts & concerns rational and justified, in hopes that someone of authority would naturally have the same inclination towards utilizing the meat for someone in need...or do you think my call went completely ignored by UHP and no one even bothered to show up and the deer died on it's own?
