What do you think about this deer population control plan? In upstate NY, the deer population has gotten so high and out of control that they are all over and becoming a nuisance! They are in the roads, eating gardens, and most importantly, causing certain forest areas to recess because every single time a new seedling sprouts, the deer come along and eat it! Plus you can%26#039;t kill the female deer, only the bucks, and somehow the few bucks are making babies with many females.

So to remedy this, Cornell University (Ivy league college in Ithaca) is trying a new approach to limit the deer population. They are catching female deer and spaying them, basically fixing them so that they cannot have babies! I kid you not. To me, this seems crazy! I mean it could work but the amount of time and money being spent on catching and spaying individual deer, it just seems extremely inefficient. Your ideas?

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4 months ago

lol, I don%26#039;t think that capturing all of the deer and placing them in a giant, fenced in forest filled with wolves is the most realistic idea, either. 100% 2 Votes
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if the people who are in charge of %26quot;controlling%26quot; the deer population were into foresight, they would take a look at the food source of the deer and examine why there is a sudden spike in the population in your area. 0% 0 Votes