Humans are the Problem (Not the Deer)

Illinois is complaining there are too many deer. The biggest complaint is that they eat someone's pretty flowers ("Tulips -- they absolutely love those things"). So unfortunate but deer have had to come a long way to get here.

Deer were nearly extinct(!) in the early 1900's:

Although hunters and agricultural development all but eliminated Illinois'white-tailed deer in the early 1900s, efforts to restock the herds in the 1930s were wildly successful, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

That's when our population was only 80 million. Who's to say what would happen now with a population around 300 million.

But of course if they did just as we'd please there'd be no problems.

The deer might be more welcome if they craved less-desirable plants, such as garlic mustard, an invasive weed that crowds out the native species, Jones
said."Deer don't eat it, unfortunately," he said. "If they did, it would be a
godsend."

Let's get Monsanto on that!