(The Conversation) – Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that white-tailed deer were nearly extinct about a ...

But what happened to white-tailed deer? What drove them nearly to extinction, and then what brought them back from the brink? A pair of White-tailed deer grazing in a meadow in the vilalge of St ...

This near-disappearance of deer was much discussed at the time. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau had written that no deer had been hunted near Concord, Massachusetts, for a generation. In his famous ...