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Dudes...
Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:09 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:41:42 -0500, Boater
wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:25:23 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
Next year, you will be talking about the beauty and grace
of watching the deer walk through the forest on a foggy morning,
sighting the deer in your sights, and the feel of cold steel against
your cheek, and then slowly pulling the trigger, just so you can enjoy
the sight of blowing Bambi's brains all over the forest.
Bambi is vermin. They got one car of mine. Go for a country drive
around these parts, and you will see more deer than cats, rabbits,
coons, possoms, and skunks, combined. Lots of cars get roadkilled.
Well, when you intrude upon and destroy animal habitat, they tend to wander.
Man has created most deer habitat, and there are far more deer than
when the white man arrived and started cutting the forest. The second
growth stuff that then grows is what the deer eat. They live at the
edge of the forest, and human activity has created lots of edges and
too many deer.
That's an excellent point and one that's not often considered.
Plus, as the urban areas expand into surburbia, you are seeing more
and more farmlands intertwined with housing tracts which also creates
problems as the deer forage in fields and backyards.
Not that I doubt it (well, maybe a little), but...
....how does anyone really know that there are more deer today in the
United States then when "the white man arrived."
Did the Pilgrims do a scientific deer census in 1620?
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