Each spring, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks receives several calls from people who have picked up deer fawns or other wildlife.
According to FWP Region 7 Warden Ryan Karren, a California couple traveling through the area this weekend saw a new fawn off the road and stopped and picked it up. They transported the fawn in their vehicle for about two hours on the woman's lap.
"Mother had abandoned it, and it was starving," the couple told Karren.
FWP no longer accepts, holds or rehabilitates deer and elk because the animals rarely survive the stress of captivity, and because of concerns with the s...
