In the News … Deer, Composting, Soil Loss
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Big surprise — deer are a problem in Westchester.
Read my colleague Greg Clary’s article today on the results of a county task force study on how deer are destroying our forests, with various options for reducing their numbers. Note the sidebar on bowhunters on the right side of the page.
Some of the numbers are amazing — 63.7 deer per square mile in the 4,315-acre Ward Pound Ridge Reservoir, a county park. Deer-resistant plant lists don’t have much meaning with these kinds of numbers. They’re going to be nibbling at cars before long.
The Westchester section of the Sunday NYTimes had a good piece on composting, how Westchester exports more than 85,000 tons of leaves each fall for composting elsewhere. Surely there must be a greener way to do this.
And the op-ed page of yesterday’s Times had a piece called “A 50-Year Farm Bill” about the horrific soil loss and destruction caused by current commercial agriculture practices.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
