>>1432565Most common tick in the US is the deer tick. Guess which animal normally carries deer ticks? Deer ticks weren't a problem for almost 150 years because most of the forests were cut down and the deer hunted year round. Wasn't till the 60's-70's when conservation and reforesting came about that the tick population exploded again. You compare those states to western ones, well yeah a majority of those farms that were once between the Carolinas and Maine are now gone. The west coast and mid America are the new farmlands. It was because of our rape of the land that they were kept in check. The founding fathers didn't just fight the british but ticks. For a long while we won.
