How to Deter the Deer

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To the Editor:

Re “As Deer Chew Up the Suburbs, Some Say a Good Fence Is the Best Defense” (news article, Nov. 7):

In the 1970s my father figured out a way to keep the deer out of his Bay Area garden. He discovered that deer are able to jump high, but not both high and over a distance.

So he built a fence that wasn’t much higher than four feet, but one that sloped at a 45-degree angle, about five feet in width. This clever thinking kept the deer out of his garden from then on!

BETSY KAUFMAN

New York