Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Humans are NOT overpopulated? > On 7/11/2011 2:40 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >> > In Indiana, they're vermin pure and simple. I've hit two of them with >> > my >> > car >> > over the years because the idiotic creatures wait till a car is too >> > close >> > to >> > stop, then they leap onto the road in front of you. One of them >> > actually >> > jumped onto the road and slammed into the side of my car! >> > >> > They're so overpopulated now that we're beginning to see them in the >> > middle >> > of this city of 250,000. That was unheard of when I was young, when >> > deer >> > populations were better controlled. The state's finally allowing more >> > hunting to thin the herds because the overpopulation is actually >> > beginning >> > to hurt the deer because there's not enough food for them all. We're >> > seeing >> > deer with stunted growth because of overpopulation. Some of the herds >> > have >> > as many as 100 of them traveling together. A group like that can >> > destroy a >> > farm in hours. >> > >> > >> > >