Deer Killed At Top Of Upper Peninsula Ski Jump

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (AP) -- A starving deer stranded on a ski jump in the Upper Peninsula has been killed after a rescue was considered to be too dangerous.

The Daily News in Iron Mountain says the deer was killed Wednesday by the Department of Natural Resources. It was stuck on a platform on the Pine Mountain ski jump, which is 176 feet high.

DNR spokeswoman Debbie Munson Badini says it's not known how the deer got up there. She says it was starving and "not in good shape."

The ski jump is near Iron Mountain, 200 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge.

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