The National Park Service has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia.
The agency files it as “White-tailed Deer Management Plan for Richmond National Battlefield Park”
Closes todaycloses October 22
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
October 3
Window closes
October 22
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
What we are testing.
Richmond National Battlefield ParkGrazing
“Many of the park's forest species are stunted or absent as a result of deer overbrowse, resulting in altered plant composition”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under What is the purpose of adaptive white-tailed deer management in Richmond National Battlefield Park?. Nobody has been out to check it.
Walk the wooded parts of Richmond National Battlefield Park, like the Cold Harbor and Gaines Mill trails, and photograph the forest floor: young trees and shrubs under four feet, or bare ground instead. Close and wide shots showing either a stripped, open understory with a clear browse line, or thick young growth and saplings.
Open. Anything filed before October 22 goes into the comment file the agency has to answer. After that it backs the formal objections, goes to the lawyers on the fight, and is the story.