The Inquirer: Experts say New Jersey's and Pennsylvania's deer populations are out of control


Deer graze at Valley Forge. An insurance company says only two states have more driver-deer crashes than Pennsylvania.
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The most dangerous wild animal in Pennsylvania has caused 60 deaths and nearly 4,400 serious injuries during the last seven years; it also carries an often debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. The same menacing creature is ruining crops, destroying valuable timber, stripping the woods of seedlings, changing the very nature of forests, killing nursery stock, and ravaging the lawns, gardens and golf courses of suburban Pennsylvania.

 

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