
“Deer Hard”: How Pittsburgh rallied against deer overpopulation
By: Gavin Patrone Walking through Riverview Park on a cool, late-March afternoon, one would be hard pressed to see any obvious sign of white-tailed deer. No tracks, no visible buck rub on tree bark, no droppings; no deer. The deer’s meal of choice, sprouts and seedlings, litter the ground along Riverview’s trailsThese plants were given…