Sorry, I’m on the side of the deer. We have lots of them around here. If you need to kill deer for food to survive, then have at it: No problem. Otherwise let these beautiful creatures be.
You’ve obviously never had to spend $4000 to fix what looks, at first glance, like a minor ding to your car, after hitting a deer.
“... let these beautiful creatures be ...”
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How do you feel about coyotes?
What about rats?
Ditto that. We lose some of the veggies on our garden plot to deer, pronghorns, and the occasional elk. It’s part of living here.
We have a smaller garden for the much more munchable things and it’s surrounded by an eight foot tall fence because it’d be stupid not to fence it.
This guy in Marin might want to think about a fence after he gets out of prison.
It is far better for those critters if they are held to numbers that allows then to live a healthy life.
In Georgia, we can dispatch them with a crossbow. It is better for the herd and better for our property, which cost us real money.
They are over populated hugely here.
Last year I lost twelve thousand dollars worth of new trees to bucks rubbing the bark off.
The stand on hay bales and pee on them and then the cattle won't eat it. So its a bigger deal than a few flowers.
In much of the country, Deer are locally overpopulated and suppress each young forest growth and the population of a wide array of other species.
There were some studies under the auspices of the Smithsonian, that showed deer reduced the number of songbirds and small animals by about 90% compared to where the deer were excluded.
There are parts of the country where there have been no surviving saplings in over a decade.
...Not to mention the issues with the health of the herds themselves. If there’s no hunting of deer, then there need to be wolves and mountain lions and such in the area.