Controlling deer is an urban issue, inside city limits. Getting out of town, rarely see any deer, or antelope, or even less bear, elk, moose, etc. So few.
Same article: “With its wild horse and burro budget crippled by the nearly $50 million annual feed bill, the BLM has completely forsaken trying to keep horses on public rangelands at the Appropriate Management Level on a nationwide scale. That has allowed exponential growth to the current population of 75,000, nearly three times the appropriate level.”
What kind of crud answer is that?
Rural areas have the problems with deer. There are extremely few crashes with deer in cities, while it’s very common in the country.
Guess it's where you are. Plenty of deer in our part of Texas. Saw a half dozen or more on my way home (in the country) tonight. In fact, you better drive slow and pay attention or you're likely to run over one at night on almost any country road in our county.
Deer hunting is a good source of income for land owners around here. And if it weren't allowed, we'd be overrun with deer dying from starvation.
How do you get your deer to recognize that they are supposed to move to town?
The nearest city of any significance is just under 40 miles from here. I dodge deer on a daily basis. I usually hit at least 1 deer a year despite efforts to avoid them. One year during a blizzard I hit...4? 6?...at the same time as a herd of 20 something were standing in the road on a curve.
Last night on my way home I barely missed a herd of 6, this morning I successfully completed two separate emergency braking maneuvers to avoid deer collisions.