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Wherever you see a forest where there is a deer problem, the trees you see today will not be replaced when they die.
Deer eat all the undergrowth and new saplings.
> I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer
Source: Thinking Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html
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Wherever you see a forest where there is a deer problem, the trees you see today will not be replaced when they die.
Deer eat all the undergrowth and new saplings.
> I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer
Source: Thinking Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html