MeekAndMild
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Another deer season is nearly upon us so we are thinking and talking more about deer. Some really scary thoughts:
The deer herd is multiplying to alarming proportions. Nearly every doe I've seen on deer cam and on the side of the road this year has had 2 fawns. The man who runs the local feed store told Mrs. Meek he'd seen four deer starved to death in the woods last winter and this is in a part of the country which has no snow. A woman I know just had a wreck and totaled her car when she hit a big deer. Every year this happens to more than one of my associates so I wonder who's next. Another man I know lost his entire garden and I lost 12 young apple trees this year to deer depredation.
CWD is spreading and one major factor in its spread may be overpopulation. Anthrax is endemic in much of the south. Lyme disease is spreading. All these can be deer diseases and all it will take is one good epidemic and we won't have many deer for 30 years.
Please, people! Shoot 2 or 3 does for each buck you shoot.
The deer herd is multiplying to alarming proportions. Nearly every doe I've seen on deer cam and on the side of the road this year has had 2 fawns. The man who runs the local feed store told Mrs. Meek he'd seen four deer starved to death in the woods last winter and this is in a part of the country which has no snow. A woman I know just had a wreck and totaled her car when she hit a big deer. Every year this happens to more than one of my associates so I wonder who's next. Another man I know lost his entire garden and I lost 12 young apple trees this year to deer depredation.
CWD is spreading and one major factor in its spread may be overpopulation. Anthrax is endemic in much of the south. Lyme disease is spreading. All these can be deer diseases and all it will take is one good epidemic and we won't have many deer for 30 years.
Please, people! Shoot 2 or 3 does for each buck you shoot.