Culture and Recreation, Environment, Public Safety, Rockville Reports

Do Your Bit to Deter Deer

Area wildlife helps maintain a healthy ecosystem but can become a nuisance. Here’s a few ways you can learn to live with, and discourage, deer.

• Taste or odor repellent are humane forms of control designed to repel deer from an area. You can find repellents at sporting goods stores.
• Plant deer-resistant native plants.
• Install fencing and physical barriers.
• Do not feed the deer. (Feeding wildlife can do more harm than good.)

For general deer-related information, call Rockville’s Parks and Facilities Division at 240-314-8700. To report dead or injured deer, call the Rockville City Police Department’s non-emergency line at 240-314-8900.

Visit www.rockvillemd.gov/1084/Wildlife-Management for more information.