Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Deer overpopulation?

How does hunting effect Deer overpopulation, how is Wolf Re-introduction better?Deer overpopulation?
Hunting reduces the deer to a more sustainable level so that (a) they are not all starving to death-there is enough food and (b) so fewer people die in car-deer crashes because there are fewer deer running across the road. Just prior to hunting season in 2005, I was in Texas and the problem was just as bad. Lots of deer hit on the road (and they are considerably smaller than Northern deer).





Wolf Re-introduction only works in areas where there is a limited population. Populations of deer are so large now (in Central MN), my sister, brother and BIL can legally bag 4 deer each for the past few years. When my Dad used to hunt in the 50s and 60s, it was ONE deer each. Many folks have stopped hunting due to irresponsibility of hunters who drink or shoot at anything that moves. It's dangerous out there mostly due to stupid people!





So long as farmers with animals are compensated for loss of stock or given help to change to a different kind of stock (scared dairy cows, for instance, stop producing milk), I think the program in the long run will be helpful.Deer overpopulation?
Premit hunting every season.
save a deer, shoot a crackhead
No that woudn't work because the wolves would eat our pets which are much eaiser to kill than deer. We need to stop building houses everywher and have buffer zones between cities of wild areas and bring back more hunters
The problem is that the herds must be thinned out or large nubmers will starve to death - an even worse fate - as there is not enough food to go around. Increasing the Wolf population would have little effect. Sure you would have a lot of well-fed Wolves but there would still be thousands of deer starving to death.
lol--have u ever seen a wolf kill a deer in the wild? Its gruesome--just keep hunting seaon open longer

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