Bethany Brookshire
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250 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Jan
Bethany Brookshire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Part of the reason there are so many deer hits is
is because there are so many deer.
Are there historically high numbers of deer?
Maybe, sort of, kind of.
There are historically high concentrations of deer in specific areas.
And that is, again, because of us.
When colonizing Europeans first arrived to North America, we, of course, had a massive taste for venison because, like, of course you do.
And we killed most of the deer on the East Coast.
And then we were like, oh, no, there are no deer left to hunt.
This is terrible.
There were several efforts to reintroduce deer.
But more importantly, in the 20th century, a lot of Eastern agriculture was abandoned and a lot more suburbs were built.
And what that did was it created a lot of secondary growth forest and a lot of edge habitat.
And both of those things are fantastic for deer.
Deer love that stuff.
You get a lot of like nice tender shoots and forbs and delicious things that deer like to eat.
And so it's because of our way of life that this population of deer has skyrocketed so much.
In particular, in suburbs, deer populations have skyrocketed because we also aren't hunting them in the suburbs for safety reasons.
So that could tell us a lot about the environment that we've created that have allowed these deer to thrive.
And then we put roads in there, roads where we want people to drive very fast to get from point A to point B. It's an interesting fact, and it's for the people who encounter these deer often a very tragic fact.
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