Re: More deer damage

Auralie - the same thing was happening in PA and they finally (a few years
back) extended the deer season by quite a long time to get them back down to
a manageable level.  Maybe time to talk to your state legislators about
doing the same in NY.

On 1/8/09, Catharine Carpenter <cathycrc@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> If only market hunting of deer were allowed, this behavior could be stopped
> in its tracks.
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Judy Browning wrote:
>
> Lobby for a depredation hunt in your neighborhood. Sounds like the deer are
>> overpopulated, starving & eating anything green.
>> Get a protective dog that will harass them & make your property
>> unappealing. Something like a Basenji that doesn't bark. (Although they do
>> make a yodeling sound, it doesn't carry like a bark.)
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:27 AM
>> Subject: [CHAT] More deer damage
>>
>>
>> I looked out my window this morning to discover that deer have
>>> just devastated the plantings in front of the house - things that
>>> they have never touched before in the 38 years we have lived
>>> here.  The dwarf Mugho pine has been stripped nearly bare.
>>> In all the years, they have never bothered that before.  This
>>> one is a replacement of the one we put in when we moved
>>> here - that one, though dwarf, had grown too big for the space,
>>> and had been damaged by a snow-plow.  We splurged on a
>>> nice replacement about five years ago, but it had to be dug up
>>> and replanted when the underground oil tank was removed.  It
>>> had about recovered from that when the tree fell on it summer
>>> before last.  Careful pruning had just about brought it around,
>>> but now this.  I'm trying to think what could possibly replace
>>> it that deer wouldn't eat.  Is there anything?
>>> Then I walked to the other end of the house and looked out
>>> windows there to see that my Rhododendrons there had been
>>> stripped.  They were full of buds, but are now just sticks.  The
>>> deer have sometimes nipped them, but never more than a bite
>>> or two.  This is really distressing.  They had already eaten the
>>> Mountain Laurel shoots that were trying to come up from the
>>> ones the tree took down.
>>> It's hard to know what to do now.
>>> Auralie
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Kemp TX
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