[DaMadman]

Fabs I have seen that exact same thing in a deers gut on during a really cold snowy winter. the deers gut was packed full of pine needles.

I know the two goats that my wife has both love juniper and any sort of evergreen neeedles, they eat them like they are candy. But I am sure that deer would much rather eat something else if they had the selection of food they should have.

Deer are going to become the next back yard pest in a lot of places that are building and growing.

When I lived in a townhouse the big pests were squirrels, racoons and opposums. The next thing to be added to the list is the good ole whitetail deer.

Urban sprawl. The deer will either adapt and people will except having them as pests in their gardens and yards or they will be pushed out and exterminated in certain areas.

I know of at least half a dozen places in Maryland where there used to be acres upon acres of woods and farm that were loaded with deer that are now wall to wall $300,000 homes each on 1/4 - 1/2 acre, the deer got pushed out on to the highways and most of them killed. The rest moved into the tiny patches of woods between the houses and the highways. Being couped up into those tiny patches will cause every doe to become pregnant then have two fawns a piece and before you know it you have 100 deer living (starving to death) in a 10 acre patch of woods between housing development and a highway. No way to cull the heard because you can't hunt them so they wonder onto the road and tear up car after car or go into peoples back yards and become nuisances.

It's just the way it is now. How long will it take? 100's, 1000's millions of years before ever square foot of useable space on earth will be inhabitated by suburban sprawl.