Now that I reflect on it a bit more, maybe they’ll conduct some research into Deer Gender Identity Related Issues or do some Queer Deer research. That could produce very useful results.
They'll just end up blowing a few bucks.
I just hope they don’t use the same researchers from Mississippi State who came up with the idea to help control kudzu.
The state was searching for a non-chemical way of keeping the kudzu from overtaking the highway right-of-way. Researchers at MSU found that rye grass would prevent kudzu from growing so all the highway rights-of-way were planted with rye grass.
The problem with that plan is that it did not take into account that rye grass is also a primary food source for deer in the state of Mississippi. Gee, wonder if that is part of the reason for the astronomical increase in “deer-human encounters.”
“The driver began hunting about six years ago and is an enthusiastic bow hunter during the stock-car off-season. So far, he has hosted seven ill young people for hunts on his Columbus land.
“This is what relaxes me,” Stewart said. “This is a major part of what I am.”
Stephen Demarais, a Mississippi State professor of wildlife and fisheries, said being able to study Indiana habitat will help scientists determine whether wildlife management policies translate from the Southeast to the Midwest. Mississippi State has an information-sharing program in place with state agencies in Kentucky, Missouri and Michigan and at Purdue University, he said.
The researchers’ work comes as growing deer populations across the United States have stressed habitat, created more human-deer conflicts and endangered the animals’ food sources. Researchers say hunters engaged in the multibillion-dollar hunting industry are key players in conservation.”
Click on the link before posting...just a thought.