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more. In many cases the whip is torn out of the ground or snapped off at the graft union. In the rare cases where the tree survives, growth is checked until the damage is healed over.”
“As long as there are two deer in Shenandoah National Park, one is going to be in an orchard. It’s the easiest, best place to eat,” said Ranger David Haskell, resource specialist for the park. “Deer, like all wildlife, are opportunistic feeders. It doesn’t take them long to find out where the orchards are. _ “And they’re quite mobile. With the park being so long and thin, they go out on private lands and come back in.”
Ranger Haskell maintains the park is not overpopulated by deer. In fact, he says, the park is far from the ceiling on the number of deer it can support. “We don’t have a problem with our deer population,” he maintained.
But he conceded that the park’s deer — whatever their numbers — pose a threat to the orchardists whose land abuts Shenandoah. “And there really isn’t a solution. If you want to be hard-nosed about it, don’t have an orchard near the park, just like you wouldn’t plant an orchard on the slopes of a volcano or build a
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