Last night on the local news there was a story about deer causing a lot of accidents. Sources said three thousand deer were killed annually on state roads. I remember one Wisconsinite I worked with who had had nine encounters with deer while in her car. The insurance rates in her county were high due to the number of deer/car collisiions.
Help is on the way. The reporter mentioned technology having something you could put on your car that would signal the deer --car approaching. I think one variant of this has been around for years and doesn't work well. Maybe they have improved it. They stated the other thing that repels deer is wolf urine! Then they showed a wolf and a yellow puddle. All this was during the dinner hour news. Not a good time to watch TV and eat I thought. Do we 'mark' the cars or the road? I think we are going to need a bigger wolf pack in Minnesota.
How would we collect the urine? Wolves are wild and there are a lot of roads and cars in this state. Did you ever see the movie "Never Cry Wolf"? Maybe a contest like that would be more practical. Mark your own.
Last April our local paper's Bulletin Board asked for writers to submit original Berma Shave verses. This is one of the ones I sent that they printed.
WILDLIFE CROSSING
SIGNS PLEASE HEED
DEER IN THESE WOODS
CANNOT READ
BERMA SHAVE !
PS. Day 16. Meeting a friend I used to work with for exercise. Still hanging in there.
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