[agrarianlady]

I think what slowly changed is the lack of needed deer hunting, but there’s not a popular will to address it.

We, unfortunately, live in a neighborhood with an HOA that refusus to let bow hunters in. Houses are all on one acre. There were five deer in front of my house today.

I never had one tick bite growing up and I lived outside all summer in bare feet and bare legs.

[fini]

I think you are right. Up until the 1980s, deer weren't that numerous. In the 1970s, your NC hunting license had two buck tags and one doe tag and the doe tag could only be used one day of the year. In the 1970s, I saw more bear in Camp Lejeune than deer, but when I returned in the late 1980s the base was saturated with deer.

The crazy thing is that we had a doctor tell us that our Marines did not have Lyme's disease, because "the tick that carries the disease is very rare in the south." Pretty stupid believing you can't have the disease because the carrier is rare- ignoring all of the people with bulls eye on their bodies. The school commander (a Marine colonel) told the doctor, "then you need to tell the F#$K$%# ticks, because they haven't gotten the word."