Re: More deer devastation

I am so sorry to hear it.  My folks in NE PA had the same problem.  They
finally started to lengthen the hunting seasons there to try and get the
over-population problem under control.
Have you tried contacting NY's version of Parks & Wildlife and suggesting
that they do the same?


On 3/17/09, Betsy Kelson <bkelson@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Oh Auralie,
>        I am so sorry. I can symoathize. Here in Colorado, the deer also are
> eating things they would would not choose first or last. I think the poor
> things are starving for lack of normal food stuffs and their populations
> have been allowed to go unchecked.
>
> betsy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:39 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] More deer devastation
>
>
> > I just got around to the back of our land this afternoon - the first time
> > since last year that it hasn't been too icy to manage the slope - to find
> > that the large mass of Leucothoe back there is totally leafless and
> > quite a bit of it broken down.  Last winter was the first time deer had
> > ever touched it since I planted it there in 1970, but then they just took
> > the front leaves.  This is a big thicket - maybe 10 feet long by 6 feet
> > thick and 6 or 7 feet high.  It has always been a resource for
> good-looking
> > line material for flower arrangements - various arrangers knew they could
> > always come and get it - but now there are about  four skinny tall pieces
> > with any leaves left.  I don't know how they got through the mass of it.
> > There are numerous broken branches lying on the ground, so I guess they
> > just took hold and pulled.  I'm really at a loss to know what I can plant
> > this year - I just don't have what it takes to keep planting stuff that
> just
> > gets eaten up or broken down.
> > Auralie
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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