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Number of
roadway deer
triples in one year
By Mary Ann Kuhn
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
When Lindsay Walker talks about the number of deer being killed on Rappahannock's highways and byways, he has numbers to back up what anyone who drives these roads has been seeing this season.
In the last 11 and a half months, the Virginia Department of Transportation has picked up 201 deer from ‘ Rappahannock's roadways compared to only 64 in 2002.
“This is a significant increase in the number of deer being killed on the roadways in Rappahannock,” said Walker, who is the assistant resident engineer for maintenance for the county.
The total deer population had gone up during the past decade, state wildlife officials say.
Talk to motorists like Phil Irwin of Flint Hill about deer and he can tell stories from his experience that would make anyone think twice about venturing out on county roads in the evening.
“Deer have hit me six times-I have not hit them, they have hit me-in the 40 years I have lived here,” says Irwin, who owns Caledonia Farm Bed & Breakfast.
He said he was hit four times on Route 211 and twice on Fodderstack Road. And everytime he's been hit by a
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