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Clark County residents learn to share backyards with deer

Shy, graceful creatures forced closer to people as habitat disappears

By , Columbian staff writer
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Columbian black-tailed deer browse shrubs, trees, grasses, nuts, fruits and garden crops. Feeding them anything else can make them ill or kill them.
Columbian black-tailed deer browse shrubs, trees, grasses, nuts, fruits and garden crops. Feeding them anything else can make them ill or kill them. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife) Photo Gallery

My newest neighbors are four-legged, furry and — to use the latest scientific terminology — totes adorbs.

This year, a doe and her fawns began nosing through my yard several times each day. They meander down the block, silently exploring other yards. Occasionally the energetic fawns start leaping and chasing around.

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