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Floodwaters Drive Deer Onto Agricultural Fields

Floodwaters Drive Deer Onto Agricultural Fields
Floodwaters Drive Deer Onto Agricultural Fields
From Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

LITTLE ROCK - Historically high flooding along the Mississippi River in southeastern Arkansas has driven hungry white-tailed deer from inside levees onto valuable agricultural fields, where they have reduced crops to nubs. "I saw 195 acres of beans gnawed to the ground," said Dick Baxter, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Deer Program coordinator. "They were planted a month ago."

Landowners have used devices such as rope firecrackers and propane cannons to frighten deer from fields...

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