{"id":222,"date":"2015-10-08T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/?p=222"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:06:09","slug":"222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/2015\/10\/222\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is a great for many things: cooler weather, fall leaves, football Saturdays; maybe the only thing bad about fall is the increased risk of a collision with a deer on our roads and highways. \u00a0I wrecked my first car as a seventeen year old coming home from a friends house one night when a deer on the side of the road thought his best move was to go left into the road instead of going right back into the trees.\u00a0 I was also in the car with my family on our way back from a baseball game when a deer jumped out in front of us.\u00a0 Thankfully we all walked away unscathed, the deer in both situations\u2026. Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>UGA researchers have completed a county-by county study of when motorists should be more aware of deer traffic.\u00a0 The study compiled records from 2005-2012 of deer-vehicle collisions, 45,811 from across the state.\u00a0 They combined this information with breeding data and produced this map which provides the peak dates per county.\u00a0 Deer are most active in Cherokee County from November 10<sup>th<\/sup>-16<sup>th<\/sup>. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiawildlife.com\/rut-map\">https:\/\/www.georgiawildlife.com\/rut-map<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2.png\" alt=\"Peak Deer Movement in Georgia (2)\" width=\"574\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2.png 574w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/files\/2015\/10\/Peak-Deer-Movement-in-Georgia-2-138x138.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deer are most active from dusk to dawn so motorists should be extra cautious during these hours.\u00a0 If you thought chewed up hostas was annoying try being a seventeen year old without a car for a month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall is a great for many things: cooler weather, fall leaves, football Saturdays; maybe the only thing bad about fall is the increased risk of a collision with a deer on our roads and highways. \u00a0I wrecked my first car as a seventeen year old coming home from a friends house one night when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[105,107,106],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cherokee-county","category-uncategorized","tag-deer","tag-road-safety","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/cherokee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}