Posted on 10/23/2017 4:28:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Seconded! :-)
Cougars are apparently working there way around and down from the west by going above the upper Missouri River. A warden shot one in KY a year or so ago I heard. Once they get a hold east of the Mississippi they will explode from the deer numbers there!
There are Elk transplants in VA and NC that are apparently doing well. We always had gobs of bears in VA, they’d occasionally wander through JMU campus there when I was in school in 80’s.
Oh, and the American Chestnut has been crossbred with Asian ones and then back to true stock with blight resistance! Truly an epic tree and one of the greatest ecological disasters of American history. I believe you can get non cross, and by now possibly crossed ones, from the American chestnut society.
One of the guys that hunted at our VA cabin found one that reached burr bearing stage about 10 years back. They sprout from stump areas like redwoods, but they always blighted back.
Necessity is the mother of invention as they say! I have the same problem in my neck of the woods, too.
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And yet, they go bounding in front of people’s vehicles, causing injurious accidents. Their application of their intelligence is, shall we say, selective.
Just out of camera range there’s a sign that says “deer crossing”.......Just happens to be another thread on that very topic.
“Their application of their intelligence is, shall we say, selective.”
I suspect that their vision, hearing and reactions are programmed by millions of years of evolution. They have not adapted either their sight, hearing or reactions to account for vehicles moving at thirty-plus miles per hour.
A old friend of mine had a garden, she said off season the deer ate her garden. In season they left it alone. The boundary line for hunting was the edge of her garden.
Many years ago my husband worked at the Lawrence Radiation Lab in the hills behind UC Berkeley. The day before opening day every year, all the deer from the surrounding area would migrate to the grounds of the Rad Lab where they were safe from hunters.
Is that where Rudolf recharged his batteries?
I dunno. Everything was top secret there! :)
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