This is from Tom Rawinski, Botanist, Durham Field Office, N A State & Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH.
As a society, we are beginning to recognize that a burgeoning deer population is a problem of our own creation – an unintended consequence of eco-environmental gentrification, if you will. The Friends of the Blue Hills (near Boston) is to be commended for furthering the public discussion on this critical issue, found at:
http://friendsofthebluehills.blogspot.com/2010/12/researcher-says-deer-are-killing-forest.html
Additional blog postings – about the Blue hills deer situation – can be viewed at:
http://www.universalhub.com/2010/deer-are-killing-forests-blue-hills-reservation-re