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secondcurve · 03-16-2008, 01:02 PM

Winter is nature's way of thinning out the weak and sickly. When there are too many deer they create roadside hazards and they help spread Lyme disease. Please take Skip's advice and educate yourself about what the experts say about feeding deer. I am not sure if it is illegal, but it certainly is a bad idea.

I actually hit a deer early one morning this January on Boston's North Shore. It was killed instantly and caused approximately $4,000.00 in damage to my car. After the accident, I did a little research into the deer population in this area and found that deer can number up to 125 per square mile when a healthy population would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 per square mile. We need to let nature do her work in the winter in combination with encouraging responsible hunting to keep the herds down. Too often the uneducated help keep the herds at unnatural levels by feeding them in the winter and not allowing hunting.

03-16-2008, 01:02 PM	#8
secondcurve Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,128 Thanks: 1,344 Thanked 564 Times in 291 Posts	Winter is nature's way of thinning out the weak and sickly. When there are too many deer they create roadside hazards and they help spread Lyme disease. Please take Skip's advice and educate yourself about what the experts say about feeding deer. I am not sure if it is illegal, but it certainly is a bad idea. I actually hit a deer early one morning this January on Boston's North Shore. It was killed instantly and caused approximately $4,000.00 in damage to my car. After the accident, I did a little research into the deer population in this area and found that deer can number up to 125 per square mile when a healthy population would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 per square mile. We need to let nature do her work in the winter in combination with encouraging responsible hunting to keep the herds down. Too often the uneducated help keep the herds at unnatural levels by feeding them in the winter and not allowing hunting.