Bruce Collinsworth, superintendent of Chief Logan State Park near Henlawson said last week the park is experiencing a problem with visitors who want to feed the deer inside the park.
Signs posted along the road through the park clearly tell visitors that feeding the animals is prohibited.
"People who are feeding the deer in Chief Logan State Park are in violation of the law," Collinsworth said. "If it continues, we may have to start writing citations. We've warned a few people, but it has become a problem."
Collinsworth said the deer need to eat food that grows naturally in the park, rather than bags of potato chips and other foods people have been feeding them.
"We know people mean well," Collinsworth said. "But, when you feed them potato chips and cookies it's no good for the deer."
Collinsworth said deer become accustomed to coming up to people and cars to get food and that can be hazardous to the health of the people feeding the deer and to the deer, themselves.
"The deer becomes tame if people are always feeding them," Collinsworth said. "If you have a little kid feeding a big buck and something startles that deer, the people can get hurt. And, when deer gets used to coming up to cars to get food people hold out the window to them, we have a problem with people shooting them from the cars. A lot of times, they'll shoot the deer and drive off just so they can say they killed a big buck."
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