Deer, deer... everywhere... MD Some evenings, we take our dog out for car rides; he helps us count the deer that we see while we drive down the road; sometimes we see a lot of deer; sometimes just a few. One thing's for sure... we always see deer: just off the roadway, crossing the road, in the park, two blocks from our house (and occasionally walking right past our house). They're big too...  I've never seen so many deer and we're just outside of Washington, DC... Out of Control, Deer Send Ecosystem Into Chaos. Deer are the new varmints, marauding herbivores that are altering the ecology of forests. By Andrew C. Revkin. [New York Times: Science]