Sambar Deer. One of the most unusual owners was multimillionaire Dr. Raymond V. Pierce of patent medicine manufacturing fame from Buffalo, N.Y. In 1908, he purchased the island for $12,500 and ...

A victory for the animal kingdom, or maybe a truce? Either way, it’s part of a story that makes St. Vincent Island, off Florida’s northwest coast, a fascinating place to visit. Now a wildlife ...

St. Vincent Island Sambar Deer Traipsing around the snake-infested barrier island of St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge is an exotic species of deer imported here from southeast Asia known as ...

The island, now owned by the federal government, is officially known as the St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge. You can paddle to it in a canoe, angling through the tidal currents of Indian Pass.