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the park may not be overrun with deer. "But in certain areas, there’s a definite overpopulation for the amount of food available up there ... The park is a sanctuary for deer.”
And it’s this lack of adequate food supply that drives the opportunistic feeders down from their sanctuary to Rappahannock’s orchards, he said.
“The park is part of the problem but it’s definitely not all the problem,” agreed orchardist Louis Moore Jr. whose family farm stretches along Fodderstack Road.
“Deer are pretty sharp. They know they’re safe in the park . . . The park is a big sanctuary — the biggest sanctuary — but not the only sanctuary. We have an awful lot of deer who are born on the flat lands and stay on the flat lands,” said the orchardist, reporting that he continually plants new trees and loses upwards of 50 every year.
“The closer you get to the park, the more deer you have. But the problem for orchardists is the same everywhere in the county,” said Tom Lee, who has 65 acres in apples and 30 acres in peaches on the hillsides near the town of Washington. “We’ve got nothing bordering the park but we still have a deer prob
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