Growing Herds of Deer Not Welcome at NY Parks

[Still Waters]

Buck's Hollow, in Staten Island's Greenbelt, might sound like a natural home to whitetail deer, but the New York City parks department is doing its best to keep them out.

The department, which is restoring the forest in the area, has surrounded six acres with eight-foot fencing intended to keep the deer away. In the past year, workers removed invasive species like Japanese honeysuckle and Chinese wisteria from the parcels. Next year, the department will enlist volunteers to plant 8,000 trees and shrubs - native species like red maple, beech, cherry, sweet gum and spicebush. The plan is to keep the fence around the four plots of land, called exclosures, until the saplings are 10 feet tall or big enough to survive the deer's voracious appetites.

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