Friday, January 17, 2025

Deer on the Edge

These deer were jungled up a few hundred yards down the road from the house.  

Deer are edge creatures — you can walk a 1,000 miles in the deep woods and you will be lucky to see one (though you may hear them running off).  

This Maryland county is full of small and large woods next to orchards and farms with big pastures as well as scores of thousands of acres in corn, soy, and winter wheat. There’s no shortage of water either.  Really ideal deer habitat.

Frederick County has over 16,000 acres of public hunting grounds, most of which is rocky upland woods. Of the approximately 7,500 deer harvested im the county every year, only about 350 deer are harvested on public land.

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