“Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society president, Brian Athearn, an experienced hunter, was quoted as saying: ‘Oddly enough, I’ve never seen more deer than after this hunting season, There are people terrified of Lyme disease, and rightfully so.’ In his role at the Ag Society, he advocates whatever works best on-Island in terms of deer harvesting to mitigate that terror and to diminish the threat of Lyme. Speaking personally as a hunter, he said, ‘a target-rich environment makes it much easier to feed my family,’ but tempered that idea with the reality that processing fatigue can come from an abundance of deer — he and his colleagues can only butcher so many deer, regardless of how much the season expands or how much land opens up to hunting.”
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https://www.mvtimes.com/2019/04/16/deer-dont-get-lyme
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