Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Though I spent great amounts of time at my grandparent's rural homes, and lived on the outskirts of our Louisiana town, I never saw a deer in the wild until I was about thirty-five, and that was in Wisconsin. Now, I see them all the time grazing along I-49, and when in Colorado Springs walking across the street right near my daughter's quite urban neighborhood. On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:45 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Chris' comments are right on target. > > White Tail Deer are incredibly overpopulated in Indiana, and in the last > few years, they > have begun to be seen in the large cities like Fort Wayne. I nearly hit > one with my car that jumped out into the road in a residential > neighborhood in the city last week! This was in a city of 250,000 people, > not a rural area! > - - - - > Those beautiful white tailed deer are 150 lb. rats. They consume just > about everything that grows and have dramatically changed the > landscape.They carry and spread Lyme disease, a crippling ailment which has > reached endemic proportions in the Northeast. Their number has multiplied > dramatically. We have five sleeping in our back yard. Every time we leave > the house we have to chase a few away from our garden. If you look at my > LUG gallery site you will see almost as many pictures of deer as you will > of flowers. > > In the Hudson Valley there are now more deer than when the land belonged > to the Indians. They live on the edge of the woods, feeding in open areas. > The main reason for the growth in numbers is that venison is no longer > regarded as a necessary food source. Deer are no longer hunted as in the > past and restrictive laws keep the hunting season very short. Wolves and > bears, their natural predators have been largely eliminated. That and the > Disney movie "Bambi" which led a entire generation to think of deer as > benign, almost decorative, animals. The greatest predator of deer is now > the automobile. Rural highways are punctuated with deer carcasses and > smashed cars. Eat more venison. - Eat. > Larry Z > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA