With more people than any other jurisdiction in the region, Fairfax County, Va., also has more deer than officials say is desirable. Archery as part of a deer-management program inevitably evokes images of Robin Hood loosing arrows from his longbow in Sherwood Forest. In Fairfax, the management program is aimed at controlling the number of white-tailed deer on public parklands, estimated at two to five times the optimum. Fairfax officials said the county’s first fatal deer-car collision was in 1997. The archery program runs from Saturday through Feb. 23.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2018 02:39 UTC