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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] intro

At 07:55 PM 1/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi, Tony.
>  You'll probably get lots of posts about deer:  a modern Norway rat in
>most of our perceptions!! It is protected except for a limited hunting
>season in the autumn of each year.  Only 6 deer allowed per hunter, and
>only a few days for does...The damned things multiply religiously, and find
>that cars, people, noises, houses, some dogs, most people and the suburbs
>agree with them very well!!  Most backyards (and some front yards too)
>offer more and better forage material than the "wild" - and they're not
>dumb, so they come and "expensively" help themselves.  Most are whitetails,
>reintroduced into most of the U.S. by the U.S. game and fish dept.  I have
>an 8' electric fence around 1 acre of my most prized plants, and let them
>eat to their heart's content on the other 4.5 acres.  Joann Stewart Zone 7
>Watkinsville, Georgia  (edge of the piedmont region, leading up to the
>Appalachian Mountains)  where it is cold enough tonight to make you VERY
>glad not to be a brass monkey!! <BG>
>----------

hunters are permitted "only 6 deer"!!!  How big are those things, anyway?
In the West, where we have mule deer, it's one per license.  In parts of
the West, there are hordes of deer, but for the most part, they're fairly
rare.  I never saw the one that almost stepped on me, but I certainly heard
its terrified retreat across the valley, where it "blew" for at least ten
minutes, trying to catch its breath.  We seldom see deer in summers.
Margaret
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