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Woman hospitalized after being attacked by buck
By KIRK SWAUGER
The Tribune-Democrat
SHANKSVILLE — An environmental specialist for a Central City engineering firm was attacked by a buck while she was studying wetlands at a game preserve in Stonycreek Township Wednesday morning.
Jamie Detweiler, 35, of Ligonier, was flown by medical helicopter to Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, where her condition was not immediately available.
Detweiler was doing wetlands dilineation at the preserve for Musser Engineering when the buck suddenly charged her, goring her in the leg, said Roger Harmon, owner of 6 Springs Hunts on Lambertsville Road in the shadows of the Flight 93 temporary memorial.
“This is the first time it’s ever happened up here,” said Harmon, who has operated the preserve for deer, wild boars and rams for the past five years.
Randy Musser, president of Musser engineering, said “we’re thankful, thank God” that Detweiler was not maimed even more severely.
State Wildlife Conservation Officer Travis Anderson was near the preserve when he heard reports of the attack over the scanner around 10:37 a.m.
Why the deer charged remains uncertain: Anderson said buck typically won’t begin their rut for another six weeks or so.
The buck remains free on the fenced-in preserve, he added.
“Deer inside fences sometimes have a tendency to be more used to human beings than other deer,” Anderson said.
The woman was doing wetlands work inside the preserve when confronted by the buck.
“Apparently, she saw this deer and started backing away,” Anderson said. “At some point, the deer came after her.”
Harmon said the 50 or so deer on the property are not accustomed to human interaction, and usually would run away.
“These deer are pretty wild,” he said. “You can’t go up to them. They take off running.”
Along with the Game Commission, Shanksville Fire Company, the state police and Somerset ambulance.
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