The Ann Arbor plan will accomplish nothing because the whole county is overpopulated with deer. If they kill 100 there are more then enough outside of town to move in.
I think it is mostly because there is not enough hunting to keep the population in check.
Why is there not enough hunting? Many folks with land don’t allow hunting. Many parcels are not big enough. There are individual houses and small subdivisions everywhere scattered outside of town. There is not much land to hunt it seems.
I drive my son to school on a rural road just north of town and we often see dozens of deer standing about in adjacent fields.
Like I posted to crx, the deer we have here in Washington state do migrate into the hills for food and rut and move to open areas like Fort Lewis for food during the winter. Besides legal hunting on post, their are cougar and bear that during brief times of the year also harvest the blacktail. But because it is controlled, we don’t have an over abundance of deer due to artificial natural changes which is what I think happened in Ann Arbor.
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There are deer all over the place in both Warren and Sterling Hgts due to the scattered small plots of woods. Since there is no way they can hunted, they will roam around, continue to breed and continue to get killed by cars....Cars are their only natural predator now...LOL!