Word: winecoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Researcher Winecoff...
...THOS. E. WINECOFF...
Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner, Dr. T. E. Winecoff, wrote about it in American Game. An annual kill of 20,000 to 25,000 deer, he said, "cannot be missed in this State. The deer herd now far exceeds the carrying power of their wild range, and-forced by hunger-they have become appallingly destructive to crops, orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game...