Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back in Washington state where I was stationed in the Navy (not Bremerton) deer were deadly pests. There were easily more than 20 fatalities accidents between drivers and deer per season in our county alone. Only the fence at the DMZ in Korea s high enough to keep them off the roads so deer season was a big cleaning every single year. Overpopulation of deer is dangerous to people, animals and after a few seasons, dangerous to the deer herd survival. They may be cute and all but those antlers are sharp and those legs and hooves are extremely powerful. I'm all for thinning the herd in order to continue the survival of everyone, including the deer. If they are allowed to roam free without control programs in place, they can act like a swath of an army with a scorched earth strategy. Deer are very tasty too. Phil Forrest On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:40:10 -0400 Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> 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. > > >