News — 08 June 2011
For most urban residents in Ontario, the sight of a foraging deer in their backyard would be an uncommon experience. For most residents of The Wilderness City, the novelty has long worn off.
Sheltered from predators, area deer have learned to thrive in proximity to humans who have endure no small damage to their gardens and shrubberies whom they share with the deer.
Have these deer become too many in number and too damaging in their behaviour?
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