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.. deer and the buffalo roam ’Cavnbridr CANDICE GRIMMdoubt people laughed »yean ago when a Cambridge area father and Hati dreamed of turning tevaral hundred acrtt of hilly, wooded land they owned Into an -nlmal refuge Well, now Dr. Beryl Bert and hie father. Dr Beryl . dentine. eharr not cely f Cambridge office but the lacteerve m the back of a four-wheel drl.e pickup - in Itaeif a match-leee eiperleoce.theer far-fetched dream About 15 yeare ago thetr dream became a eucceteful reality and in epite of the eirugglee theyve endured. the pair love eharing the of their unique tOfracre ra Wildlife Refuge with visi-The Refuge ie unique in a of waye First. it it not )wt another ret Meet the aiumalt roam freely and vuitort view them by riding through the pre-AIh. nearly all the Refuge in-were bought by theAccording to Bart, the ride U to inch fun that even little old India*much fun t who have never ridden anything more eidting than an escalator wlad op joining the crowd in back mitead of riding in the cab.i at a coat of •everal thouaand dollar* apiece.Whittcailed dear are a part of the Refuge. But at the time the Joneses began collecting their menagerie. Ohio’s deer population wat not at healthy at now to they parchaaed 13 deer from around the Mata.SECOND. THE majority of the animals la the preserve ware native to Ohio before early Hitler. pithed them Into ten populated areat.Since the Refuge hat been financed by the Joneee*. without federal or itate aid fcr any project. everything hat been a challenge For inatance. their hrat ;:-0 wat to fence the entire Refuge - which originally encompaued an arret - with a nine-foot high non-cllmbable fence topped with .trandt of barbed wtr*.According to Bert. The deer did to well that within a few year* we had hundred! and began telling a limited number of hunting permits. The herd la considerably thinner now. though. Etpecially since a lot of them got out a couple year* ago when unusually wet spring weather caused to much flooding they just swam over a arc non of fence.dream inHowever. Maude the moose still resldet at Sonora and the J« are hoping to find her mat*.It aA fully-antlered bull elk truly majMtlc eight and alnc* they once roamed the Ohio valley, the Joneses had to have them in thefr refuge. Their herd of five cowtand two bull tih tutumed twoWE ALSO loat Mom a the moote then. He had gotten out once before and we were able to capture him. but no algn of him nee kitcasualties Lht flrtt year - a cow that wat poached and a bull that died from Internal Injuries after it wat repeatedly rtmraed In the tide by* deerThe elk herd hat tince Increased to 10 and In winter they can often be teen .rating jutt intide the gate near Berk’a ruttie k| horn#.While many of ut can’t envitloo buffalo having ever been a part of Ohioa landicapt. U’s true that they once wer*. Ohlo’t native woodland buffalo It much the tame at the prairi* buffalo axcapt that they prefer wooded areat. are larger and darker In color.TWF lliNFS’ iMirrhaae id their
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Sat, Nov 13, 1982
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