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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

“The deer population in Shenandoah National Park is a time bomb waiting to explode,” says Rappahannock Game Warden Jim Bankston.

And when the detonation comes, it will level the county’s orchards, according to game specialists and local growers who already lose thousands of bushels and thousands of dollars annually to deer.

Flint Hill orchardist Herbert Foster has 125 acres in apple and peach trees in orchards which border the park for about a mile and a half.

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