Mark Kramer blogs about urban wildlife at www.sublimescapes.org and teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Urban Deerhunter
Every July, along deer trails in pockets of forest in and around the city of Pittsburgh, Dan Krivanek and his buddies hang a bevy of camouflaged infrared LED hunting cameras in the crooks of trees. They also strew cut up apples and feed corn. Then, back in his Bridgeville borough home a few miles away, …