At the same time, the deer population seems to have declined significantly.
The township wants to reach a deer population of about 350.
But with low deer populations, a new forest did quickly grow.
Proposals to control the size of the wild deer population are published by the government.
Even more significantly, the deer population appears to be out of control.
Certainly there aren't enough men left around to keep the deer population down.
Simply doing nothing would be much more effective than hunting, to reduce the deer population.
In some states, he said, almost 20 percent of the deer population is killed each year by autos.
The deer population experienced a great increase in numbers during the early decades of the 20th century.