We can’t say the government is completely against deer. They did just put in 15 miles of premium clover and alfalfa along hwy 200 going east out of Walker.
I have seen them bailing hay along MN highways right of ways. Guess you can apply for a permit. No such program in WI as the local governments just have crews out cutting stuff and leaving it lay. Maybe planting better forage and utilizing all that land is not such a bad idea, unless you count critter roadkills I guess.
Decades back they rebuild the road through Keliher and Waskish. Birdsfoot trefoil was planted or at least growing very heavily on the ditch banks and the road was full of deer at night.
I wish I knew. I'm fairly certain these guys don't lime or fertilize these ditches. Got me to wondering if the road salt doesn't help raise the pH over time and make that ditch forage a sweeter draw than normal.
We live on a county hwy that they improved last year. They tore up about 30' into our front yard in the process and were so kind as to plant a DOT mix rather than putting it back into a lawn like it was prior. My wife wasn't impressed.
I did look up the MNDOT mixes and didn't see any that seemed to be for sure this but the only clover listed that would look like that is Red Clover.