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...Black Hills of Wyoming, 15 tribes from Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas are fighting off an effort by the Forest Service to turn their sacred site of Medicine Wheel into a tourist attraction. The 4,000-member Northern Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Mont., is battling coal miners and railroad developers on its lands. Tribe members are afraid that development would bring tourists flooding into the middle of their religious ceremonies and disturb areas rich in medicinal plants and yellow ocher earth paint needed for those rituals. "How would you like it if I took my picnic basket, my family...
...lost his job last summer as vice president of the United Cotton Goods Co. of Griffin, Ga., a textile company that Kantor says was "beaten to death by imports." He has flooded the mails with resumes, in the hope that "if you shoot enough bullets into the woods, a deer will run into one." He answered an ad in the Wall Street Journal for a corporate financial officer last September and waited months for a response. "As people are scared, they are taking longer to make decisions," he said. That is true, a company official agreed, but the delay also...
RoboDeer is the pet creation of Pete McCuskey, owner of Mountain Security Specialties, who watched hours of deer videos to learn and duplicate genuine buck motions. "We strove for the most natural movement," he boasts...
RoboDeer does have some defects. His head has blown a fuse or two, and his hide has been perforated by bullets. But while the DNR readily displays the deer, it insists on keeping one detail absolutely secret: the location of its motor. DNR's Ransom would say only, "It is in an area that typically would not be shot...
...shadow of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a buck with a velvet rack picks his way across a steep hillside, followed by three does. Hearing a noise, the deer turn toward a meadow filled with oak trees and sunflowers that glisten like gold coins. A band of backpacking Boy Scouts stare wide-eyed at this moment of natural theater...