Food for thought (pun intended)

[BilletHead]

How to Solve America’s Wild Deer Problem? Eat Them - WSJ

 

   Personally I am not in favor of it. But I am used to deer and do not live where widespread damage occurs although the local farmers might disagree. Same farmers plant right up to big timber field lines and blame the less production along that corridor on the deer instead of the trees sucking nutrients and water from those places. Yes it is deer damage too I know. 

[Quillback]

I was blocked from reading the entire article, but it looked to be promoting market hunting for deer.  That's going to be a hard sell.  

[Johnsfolly]

18 hours ago, BilletHead said:

How to Solve America’s Wild Deer Problem? Eat Them - WSJ

 

   Personally I am not in favor of it. But I am used to deer and do not live where widespread damage occurs although the local farmers might disagree. Same farmers plant right up to big timber field lines and blame the less production along that corridor on the deer instead of the trees sucking nutrients and water from those places. Yes it is deer damage too I know. 

Like @quillback did not read the whole article due to not subscribing. I would have liked that they used a whitetail deer photo instead of a roe buck from Europe, but who would have noticed🙄.

I have not seen the same denisities of deer out in Missouri as there used to be in PA and NJ. Would often see browse lines where there was little to no vegetation below 5 ft as far as you could see in the PA forests. Would often see a dead deer every 1/2 mile for long stretches of highway. Often more than a hundred deer in 10 or 15 acre farm plots. PA took a hard line and really dropped their deer numbers by opening up doe harvest and issuing crop damage permits. It was to the point that most public land hunters complained that there were no longer any deer. However like the article points out that a lot of deer just moved to the suburbs where there are limited or no opportunites due to societal norms to harvest those deer.

Food banks always need quality protein.

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18 hours ago, BilletHead said:

instead of the trees sucking nutrients and water from those places.

My father in law a 3rd generation farmer always said you can't grow corn under a tree...

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14 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

I have not seen the same denisities of deer out in Missouri as there used to be in PA and NJ

My mom and dad used to live next to Creve Coeur Park and it was ridiculous.  HErds of deer would come through the subdivision and clean it out.  Here at my house when you plant new stuff they will devour it.  If it happens to make it through to the following year it will likely survive.  Then you have the bucks that rub any new shrub to death.  I have two spots in my yard I've been trying to grow privacy bushes but those bucks just rub them to death over and over again.

[BilletHead]

31 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Like @quillback did not read the whole article due to not subscribing. I would have liked that they used a whitetail deer photo instead of a roe buck from Europe, but who would have noticed🙄.

I have not seen the same denisities of deer out in Missouri as there used to be in PA and NJ. Would often see browse lines where there was little to no vegetation below 5 ft as far as you could see in the PA forests. Would often see a dead deer every 1/2 mile for long stretches of highway. Often more than a hundred deer in 10 or 15 acre farm plots. PA took a hard line and really dropped their deer numbers by opening up doe harvest and issuing crop damage permits. It was to the point that most public land hunters complained that there were no longer any deer. However like the article points out that a lot of deer just moved to the suburbs where there are limited or no opportunites due to societal norms to harvest those deer.

Food banks always need quality protein.

Oh android worse Is watching nakid and afraid. Watching the African journeys and seeing guinea hens. They dub in turkey gobbling. Then the one just finished from Louisiana swamp. Showed contestants out trying too get a whitetail. Then showing African plains game. 

  I do watch alone where the last contestant there wins. So far no stupid animal insert.

  Wonder if naked and afraid does this on purpose?

[Johnsfolly]

14 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

Oh android worse Is watching nakid and afraid. Watching the African journeys and seeing guinea hens. They dub in turkey gobbling. Then the one just finished from Louisiana swamp. Showed contestants out trying too get a whitetail. Then showing African plains game. 

  I do watch alone where the last contestant there wins. So far no stupid animal insert.

  Wonder if naked and afraid does this on purpose?

I haven't watched those shows. They may do it on purpose or again figure that the viewers wouldn't know the difference. I do remember when CBS got called out for dubbing in stock bird calls for birds from areas outside of those in their coverage.

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1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

I haven't watched those shows. They may do it on purpose or again figure that the viewers wouldn't know the difference. I do remember when CBS got called out for dubbing in stock bird calls for birds from areas outside of those in their coverage.

The Masters in Augusta GA.  Piped in bird chirps..

[BilletHead]

13 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

The Masters in Augusta GA.  Piped in bird chirps..

            Like the covid sporting events?  I laughed and laughed at the NFL games the first time I heard it. Super cheesy IMO but funny none the less!