Seneca White Deer...

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Seneca White Deer "As you can see from pictures, this is not a great trait to have in the wild — the deer don't exactly blend into their environments. But then again, this population hasn't really been "in the wild" for quite some time. In 1941, an army munitions depot went up in Seneca, New York. The fence around the depot enclosed over ten thousand of acres of woodland, and one herd of deer. Ten years later, soldiers spotted a pair of white fawns roaming the woods. The depot commander was so taken with him that he gave special orders to his men. No one was to shoot any white deer. With the fence keeping predators out, and humans concentrating their hunting efforts on regular deer, the white deer population flourished. By the time the army depot closed down in the 1990s, there were about 300 deer on the grounds, and a population of dedicated locals that wanted to see the white deer population preserved. This past decade has seen ongoing clashes between developers and conservation groups. A maximum security prison went up on the land, and a records storage facility, but proposals for an ethanol plant and a development scheme have been shot down. Most of the 10,000 acres remain both undeveloped and enclosed — although the fence has become more and more ragged over the years. Meanwhile, conservation societies have been pushing for ecotourism and park status for the land." Selection. Isolation. Interference by man. These are elements that can develop a unique population. #Grafting #Domestication #SelectiveBreeding #Eugenics #AegeanEvent #ScienceOfSelf

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