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wich’s deer population, the animals protected on a 2,100 acre haven where hunting was prohibited. With the increase in numbers of ticks and tripling of the deer population to five times what the land could support came an increase in Lyme’s disease; on one rural road, 25 percent of the residents had Lyme’s disease at some point in recent years, according to the Smithsonian article.
As in Ipswich, Rappahannock’s deer herd “is at a kind of crisis point and will soon become uncontrolable,” said orchardist George Sharp. “Extensive crop damage signals an oversize deer herd,” he said, adding that the recent outbreaks of the'disease put a “new twist” on the deer population issue.
As for the contact between humans and the tick-harboring animals, Capt. Sharp noted that people in Washington report deer virtually feeding off their back porches. Other orchardists have also reported deer feeding regularly on apple orchards planted close to farm houses for protection.
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