Whietail424
FNG
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2025
- Location
- East Tennessee
I live in upper East Tenn. We are seeing more and more deer being hit by automobiles this Spring. Is anyone else having this bi issue? And why it it?
Did the road department use salt or dr-icer for the first time in the area over winter?I live in upper East Tenn. We are seeing more and more deer being hit by automobiles this Spring. Is anyone else having this bi issue? And why it it?
Crazy that you have no predators there....I my area Dept Wildlife says deer die by three causes, legal hunting, poaching, and roadkill. and the rates are about the same. (None die from old age.)
I my area Dept Wildlife says deer die by three causes, legal hunting, poaching, and roadkill. and the rates are about the same. (None die from old age.)
There are signs around Winthrop, Mazama and Twisp that keep a running total of the deer hit in the year. They are on HY 20. And the numbers often are staggering.Do deer migrate there? Did something change to re-route their normal patterns of movement?
There used to be a stretch of two lane in N central Washington where it was a major truck route and there was a cut through a hill that was a wildly popular salt/mineral lick. The mule deer bodies would stack up like cordwood. You’d drive through that cut and there’d be 15-20 dead deer. I don’t know if it’s like that anymore.
Yeah, its sad.... I'm really hyper aware when I drive through certain areas, but still one got out in front of me one night. He jumped off an embankment as I was going by, then raced me for a few paces at about 25 mph, then angled in front of me and caught my right fender. Knocked him down but he got up and ran away, and hopefuly he was alright.There are signs around Winthrop, Mazama and Twisp that keep a running total of the deer hit in the year. They are on HY 20. And the numbers often are staggering.