Your solution for growing suburban deer populations?
Mowing the back yard a week ago, I stepped over at least four piles of scat. Little pellets, and lots of them, in each pile.
Before that, in the midst of the week-and-a-half heat wave in St. Louis, I’d walk out to pick up the paper at the curb each morning and see the heat’s effect on my withering front yard flower beds. Then, one morning, I glanced over to find that the flowers were gone. The beds were empty.
The deer have been regularly invading my yard, apparently. But they are quite stealthy about it. I never see them. Only evidence of them.
That makes me like the other West County invaders into the deer environment that we write about today in this story. Or maybe they’re the invaders.
It does not make me like Don Meyer of Town and Country, quoted in our story saying, “If I had a .30-30 (rifle) and was allowed to shoot here, I wouldn’t have any deer.”
But apparently, it’s a pretty big problem, and not just for the residents’ plants. Authorities say there’s at least 68 deer per square mile in Town and Country alone — far above the 25 per square mile that the state recommends.
So, what do we do about it?
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Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
Stop building houses in the woods.