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Jan 17, 2008 1:27 pm US/Mountain

Colorado DOW, Volunteers Feed Snowbound Deer

GUNNISON, Colo. (AP) ― About 30 state wildlife employees and volunteers are packing down snow and putting out feed for thousands of mule deer struggling through several feet of snow in the Gunnison Basin.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife has authorized emergency funds to make sure a big part of the 21,000-deer herd in the western Colorado basin doesn't die.

Wildlife biologists fear the mortality rate could reach 30 percent if something isn't done.

The snow is several feet deep in parts of the Gunnison Basin and temperatures are below zero or in the single digits.

Deer are the most affected by the bad weather because they're smaller.

Wildlife employees are hauling in thousands of bags of feed specially formulated for deer.

The DOW is asking people not to put out hay for the deer because they can't digest it.

Division spokesman Joe Lewandowski says about 250 people from the Gunnison area have volunteered to help with the feeding.

He says the feeding could last as long as 60 days and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

People can donate to the program by going to the Colorado Division of Wildlife Web site and clicking on a link to the winter deer feeding: http://wildlife.state.co.us.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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