[bgill]

Uh, ok, so what exactly are the deer supposed to be doing? Hanky panky in the woods? Eating people’s gardens? Running out into the road, turning around to take aim and charging into the back of vehicles for certain suicide? Huh?

[smaug6]

In sufficient population density foraging undercover and food sources needed by other species. In short out competing other species when population controls are removed. Not enough people hunt and in urban areas that are a real environmental problem. Deer are not Bambi! Plus they taste good and are low in fat. Yummy!!!

[raisincane]

I hit a deer last winter. It done $4,000 damage to my car and scared the heck out of me. It flipped on top of my car and rolled around. Its antlers and legs were dangling outside my window right next to my head. There are too many deer here in central Indiana.

[PA Engineer]

Uh, ok, so what exactly are the deer supposed to be doing? Hanky panky in the woods? Eating people’s gardens? Running out into the road, turning around to take aim and charging into the back of vehicles for certain suicide? Huh?

I have no saplings left (in the woodlands on my land) because of deer overgrazing. Check out any deer exclusion fencing zones in your local parks.

[JasonC]

He means, since nobody is hunting them and humans have eliminated all their predators and natural competitors, deer populations are exploding, which means everything they eat is being consumed at unprecedented rates. They are destroying the undergrowth of forests across the eastern half of the US, leaving only the hardiest and most common species, while every marginal or niche variety is destroyed. The result is a reduction in the variety of life forms in the whole forest ecosystem. That is the claim - whether it is accurate is more than I know.

The underlyng point is that greenies who think leaving Bambi alone to frolick is "natural" and automatically results in a harmonious balance and all things light and true, is poppycock. Humans got rid of wolves, and as long as humans hunted deer in place of said wolves, no problem. When neither is around hunting them, is sucks to be a fern.

lol...

[sig226]

Look up what a browse line is. Deer decimated High Point State Park in New Jersey, possibly causing a few extinctions. These were insects and local plants, but they’re still gone.

[ModelBreaker]

“Uh, ok, so what exactly are the deer supposed to be doing?”

The smoke and drink beer out in the parking lot and don’t throw the cans or butts away. It’s awful.