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out of the tree, kill a mouse and fly back up. She’d made it!" Sheffield reported.
The hawk could live as a wild thing because of the approach used at the center during treatment and rehabilitation. “We try to minimize human contact. The animals don’t ever get friendly — we don’t allow it — but they do lose some of their fear and that’s bad,” Sheffield said.
"So we give them remedial fright training. We smack around them with newspapers until they’re afraid of humans again," Clarke explained.
Sheffield and Clarke have legions of horror stories about man's inhumanity to wild creatures. They range from the unthinking — a fawn believed to tie abandoned but actually kidnapped from under the watchful eye of mother deer hidden in the trees nearby — to the unbelievable — a baby skunk captured from the wild who has had his scent glands sliced away with a pocket knife in a home "operation" without anesthesia.
“It’s a window on wildlife. We see the victims of every type of hazard that wild animals face," Clarke said.
And that’s where his role comes in. He’s the educator trying to explain to the public how to reduce those hazards. "We reach about 1,000 people a month with our education program. Over 4<>,000 since may have been our slide program and over half of them are elementary students,” Clarke said. “We’re creating born-again conservationists."
He told a story of a visit
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