1.   Reindeer moss, the staple diet of the deer herds, was also said to have disappeared completely.

2.   Deer herds have suffered.

3.   Deer herds in the Great Lakes region, he noted, are at record high numbers and beaver are abundant because there are few trappers anymore.

4.   Geese, of course, are handsome animals, with even more defenders than the deer herds.

5.   He works hard at making the wild land a richer, friendlier place for a deer herd.

6.   In Maine, the largest New England state with the largest deer herd, the trend is precisely the same.

7.   Now, with deer herds avoiding flowering onions as they munch their way through landscapes, several of these attractive plants have become garden staples.

8.   The balancing of nature that the pro-wolf faction uses as a rationale is supposed to come into play when wolves eat into burgeoning deer herds and beaver packs.

9.   The club is under a game management program designed to improve the quality of the deer herd through food plots, selective harvesting and control measures against poachers.