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Mr. Foster noted that he’d been given permits by game warden Jim Bankston to kill both deer and bear out of season. “But it hasn’t helped much. We’ve killed bear but not any deer,” he said, adding that the right to shoot the destructive wildlife extends just to the landowner, his employees and tenants, most of whom are too busy in the orchards to hunt.
So without armed guards for protection, Mr. Foster hangs blood bags on young trees to keep the deer away. “That helps some. But what we need is a longer doe season in Rappahannock County to get rid of more deer. I don’t think they’ll ever allow hunting in the park.”
“We’ve looked at alternatives to this problem,” said Ranger Haskell, agreeing that a longer hunting season and a higher bag limit in the bordering counties may alleviate the threat posed by deer. “But you have to cull a deer herd heavy, heavy, heavy before you get the results you want. You have to kill 60 to 70 percent of the deer in order to get a decrease in population. If you cull fewer than that — even 40 to 50 percent — the deer will have more for
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