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There are many legends of the
White Unicorn throughout history.Biblical accounts and mythical writings of the gentle magical creature.Many times the unicorn is pictured proudly standing or playing in a wooded area with the milky
white coat standing out among the velvety
green living forest.The legends all agree that this creature is pure and good amongst a world that is contrary to that trait.It should be enough to stop this here but that is not the cause for such magic.
The goal is to catch or kill the last unicorn to steal and use the alleged magical powers supposedly possessed by the death of this stunning creature.Man"kind" seems always to feel a need to extinguish that which they are not or do not take time to understand. That in mind there is a creature that you may never have see before in a single forest in
upstate New York.
These creatures lives are going to come to an end soon.The Army base that supported and took care of them was deactivated and sold to a Corporation and the area people apparently do not want these rare and unique creatures around anymore.These creatures are Called The
Ghost Deer.
The coats are pure white which makes it fatal to be out in the wild and outside the old army compound.They have no natural protective color to allow them to hide.Like the Unicorn they are not albinos.They have brown eyes and are labeled leucistic.Which means they simply lack skin pigment.
These majestic creatures are absolutely stunning to see.I journeyed there this last fall with the same sorta thought you have at a carnival side show.The phrase,"yeah right,
white deer"!
The sight of these creatures took that thought right out of my head.I was breathless as I watched them in silence.If you search for the sight of
White Deer,there are pictures to prove what I say.If only to see
something that shortly may be gone forever.
The Army folks that took care of the deer are all gone now.The new owners apparently have now plans to help or support the small herd of Ghost Deer.The fate of the last white deer is on the table.
A handful of noble people with limited funds are trying desperately to find people that would like to
support this threatened species of wonderment.Would you have saved the unicorn if you could?
This is as close to the
mythical creature as you will ever find yourself and it is doomed...
There are 10,600acres of land these
Ghosts roamed during the Army Base Days.Now the locals are attempting to limit the acreage to less than1800 acres.This will in effect leave the deer open to hunters/poachers and predators.They will be penned in an area that Denys them a large enough to run and hide.Remember that that the smaller space makes hiding impossible for something living with pure white colors.IE:the unicorn found standing in the green forest.
This scenario is a shooting gallery
setup.This would be akin to the so called sporting ranches where rich
Neanderthals who have no ability to actually hunt in the wild,Pay enormous dollars to go and Slaughter a confined and helpless
Animal.That bozo then has the corpse stuffed and mounted to later tell what a great white/Whatever hunter he/she is.Please note that I have hunted for survival and use what little I am pushed to kill.
I would never hunt endangered creatures or unique things a these...It would keep me awake at night to realize what I had done.I have not hunted in many years though.
If these deer are not protected,then once again the legends of the noble Unicorn will be only a story to read to your children.The difference is that as you look into the eyes of that child,you will have to
hide the fact that:
Once upon a time in a place safe and protected from evil and danger lived a few mythical creatures.They played and raised their young amid the magic woods that were nowhere else in this world.The man things had worshiped them since before memory.This protected them and allowed their beauty to radiate from them in a snow white vision.
They were called Ghost Deer.That is what the man things called them.This was long ago when The man things had skin like the color of a dark leave in the season of antlers.The time when proud bucks grew antlers.Now the man things have many colors of skin and no longer worship the forest.They no longer worship the Ghosts of the forest.
Pure white radiance was not important to the new man things.They did not worship or care for that magnificent magic creature.The ghosts was no longer thought of as magic only"useful". It came to pass in time the man things who only knew how to destroy and kill.The Ghosts were hunted in the safe and magic woods.
They were hunted to the last Ghost Deer.Till they were no more White and
radiant magic ones left.The beautiful coats would never be seen again anywhere.Like the legends of the Unicorn before them,They would be gone forever.The picture of the creature standing in the velvety green woods is an empty strangely silent place now.The man things can only remember what they could have saved...They didn't see what would be lost forever.
I would urge you to see these truly magical Animals while you can.There seems to be a few folks working hard to save the last herd of these Ghost Deer.We need to see more folks that are interested in saving part of nature that comes only once in a lifetime.
When you see them there in the natural surroundings it is the closest you will ever come to what you imagined in childhood to be a unicorn.
You may be saying that there never was a unicorn.Since There is no evidence there ever was one.
That is probably true but,Will that same thing be also said about the Ghost deer disappearance in a hundred years .You decide...Its your earth too.
Ghost Deer Prophesy
By The Le nape Tribe Native Americans
It has long been predicted,That there would come a time ,When a white Male and female Deer would be seen together.
That would be seen as a sign for people to come together.
Please take time as my last couple blogs have to get away from all the manufactured stress of the"real"world and look around yourself.It is later than you think and we have only the moment...
RJP
Google the
Seneca Army Depot in
New York State,
The Seneca White Deer Inc.:Working to save the Ghost deer from falling victim to the man made modern world.Contact them if you wish to help and find out more about these noble and fading mythical Deer.
PS.Update:These magnificent creatures are once more in the news.The next year(2015)is a deadline for saving a endangered animal.There are only 200white dear in the world like these.This next year the Army Engineers pull down the protective fence surrounding the ten thousand acre.The old military base is closed and sold to an industrial coop.There will be no where safe for these creature.There is also 600 normal colored deer on this land.
A man name "Money"has a website try to save the deer from slaughter.
Please help us save this land as a park or refuge or anything that makes them safe from extinction.
RJP
Update: I have been out to the site of the White Deer. There seems to be a sudden change in the deer I used to see grazing behind the tall fences in this huge enclosure. The gates that once safely held those beautiful creatures inside were left open for weeks. I have not seen any white deer in many weeks inside or outside the fences. I would urge the readers of this article to pursue the answer as to what has happened to the once plentiful rare and endangered White deer. Have they been exterminated like many other victims of short sightedness by humans.
RJP
