10-28-2015, 12:51 AM
(10-27-2015, 11:09 PM)MrGood_imp Wrote: Yup, best thing to do is thin the population and get em' in the freezer!
You write in jest. But it's a REAL problem - the population growth.
The natural predators of deer, mostly don't like Man being around in any proximity. Nor does Man like them around - because while venison is tasty, they're not above some two-legged fillets, either.
So...the predators are gone; and the deer do what deer do. And the numbers grow.
And lots of non-outdoorsy environmentalists think that's just so-oo cute...deer grazing on their front lawns. They think that, until they hit one in the dark. And have one go through the windshield, still kicking.
I grew up in the Cleveland area; and moved back as an adult for ten years ending in 2008 The Metroparks system is a greenbelt that surrounds the city, starting near the lakeshore on the east, moving south and west, and then again north to the lakeshore at Rocky River. Now this is beautiful land but it's JUST a greenbelt - in some places less than a hundred yards wide; in other places maybe a half-mile across or a little more.
Lots of ball diamonds and picnic areas for deer to graze. Lots of deer to graze there, too. And the deer were getting onto the Turnpike, the Interstates, and major through streets.
The park board and the county set up a plan that would have volunteer police sharpshooters cull the deer - with the harvested animals to be butchered in the county jail kitchen and the Brecksville VA foodservice kitchen. No waste. Minimal danger to the public. No trigger-happy goofballs shooting at anything moving.
The public outcry was incredible! There were actually hare-brains who wanted the park rangers to FEED BIRTH CONTROL PILLS to the deer. Can you imagine that? You have a problem; one with really only one solution; and people with more money than sense cannot stand to deal with the reality of wildlife management. And of where meat comes from.