Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's a shame - herd control has long been the solution. Not to mention a freezer full of venison. Ken 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. > > >