Import some Haitians. Problem solved.
Yep, bottom line don’t let bureaucrats mess with mother nature.
I’m always amused by the “invasive” argument. Why aren’t they considered invasive where they originate?
I assume that the pigs are gone already, then.
That just leaves Man...
Are the bison next?
Leave it to California to turn what should have been allowing hunters onto the island to hunt at zero cost into something that is going to cost millions of dollars to hire "ground-based specialists using rifles."
It’s too bad they can’t capture and relocate the deer to the mainland. California’s mule deer populations are experiencing a significant, long-term decline. Populations have dropped from an estimated 250,000+ in the late 1980s to under 100,000 by 2020. Primary drivers include habitat loss from development, drought, wildfires, and increased predation.
The problem with shrinking is probably due to the natural selection on the island but if they are mixed with the mainland herds, that in time may get corrected. Providing they get the chance and are not hunted into extinction.
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) on the California mainland are vital native herbivores that maintain ecological balance, shape plant communities, and serve as the primary prey for mountain lions, coyotes, and bobcats. They are important to the forests across the state from the area found across the California mainland, ranging from the Sierra Nevada’s western slopes to the central coast and the Los Angeles Basin.
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Sounds like they have learned fro Arizona’s screw up 100 years ago on the north of the Grand Canyon.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/314912202/the-lesson-of-the-kaibab-carrying-capacity-1
Alternative plans to control the island’s population included fencing them in, relocating them, introducing predators and sterilization. …
Sounds like the leftist’s plans for us.
Just put a few mountain lions or wolf packs on the island, they’ll balance things out.
The last I knew thre was still a herd of about 150 buffalo on Catalina that were brought there 100 years ago by a movie studio that was filming western cowboy movies on Catalina.
Thos buffalo are certainly not part of the “native habitat”.
cJust Google: “atalina island buffalo herd”
The Mule Deer population increase sounds like Evolution.
We should love and hearald it.
Mule deer are the best eating of all the deer. They’re big, heavy muscled and if properly handled, can be easily thought to be beef, but richer, more flavorful. My husband and I cooked a whole rump for a large gathering. One man there from Boston insisted it was the best roast beef he’d ever eaten. He refused to believe it was venison!
Elk is even better.