Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In Kansas, they are a problem, but haven't hit urban areas much. Many are diseased. Can't remember what, but they carry something that farmers don't want. It is the result of overpopulation. We already have huge populations of year-round Canada Geese, and inner cities are full of Coons and Possums, Deer can't be far off. Bill Pearce -----Original Message----- From: Ken Carney Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 7:41 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Down with Bambi. 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. > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information