Hunting organization knows about CRE it that is why there are always so many deer in heavily hunted states. The Wildlife Agencies need abundance of deer preferably the large antlered buck for recreational killing this way they can sell more tags and ore tags sold mean revenue for them. The only way we will ever have long term and honest deer herd reduction is with IC deer birth control because it does work. http://www.pzpinfo.org/pzp_faqs.html http://defendurbanwildlife.org/news/Compensatory%20Rebound%20Effect.pdf Deer Vehicle Accidents has more then DOUBLED in state with most hunters! UPDATE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkO4rXnnqM
Michigan list the top 10 in highest DVA's and the reason being that deer are bred for purpose of sports hunting and its a business. Read here
.. Since 1970, the deer population in Michigan has quadrupled to 1.8 million, but southeastern Michigan's deer population has increased by 10 times.
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090930/NEWS01/909300316/1002/rss01
"Michigan now joins a growing list of states in which CWD has been discovered," said wildlife biologist and QDMA CEO Brian Murphy. "However, among these, Michigan has the largest deer population, highest number of hunters and greatest impact on the U.S. hunting economy. Michigan's estimated 1.5 million deer and nearly 800,000 hunters generate approximately $1 billion for the state's economy annually and support many thousands of jobs. Therefore, Michigan must assume a leadership role at the national level in the battle against CWD."
http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/cwd-west-nile-ehd-blue-tongue/172170-qdma...
They always use money as a excuse to have so many deer provided for recreational hunting ignoring human death and pain and suffering to the animals. Plus CWD can kill the less fortunate at the pantries where hunters"give" their kill to. All ignorance and greed with no regards to LIFE AT ALL. CWD disease first spread because of Elk and Deer farming for trophy deer and via use of supplement feeding rendered animals and still they are using salt licks to grow large antlered deer http://www.deerminerals.com/ Which can not only spread the CWD but with the food plot continue to increase in herd size.
now try googling "food plots and "hunting". THERE ARE ACRES AND ACRES OF FOOD PLOTS. Hunters teaming up with land ownder, hunters buying land to grow food crops to creat more large antlered. Its truely amazing I look at the photos of food crops everywhere and say to myself its no wonder we have so many deer problems. Its not the deer's faults its the hunting industry and their greed for large antlered deer to use for sports killing.
Plus many of the food crops are soybean and filled with nutrients meaning more fawn births plus they even add supplement feeding (some states banned because of CWD).
6 reasons why we have high DVA's year after year after year.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=42035265...
You Really should read it
This argument is only valid if you stop hunting after you reduce the population - then the low numbers would rebound explosively and then be a problem again. By maintaining the population through proper hunting management, the herd stays healthy and numbers are not excessive & harmful to themselves or their suroundings. Hunting makes sense.
1PATRI0T 2 years ago
That is never going to happen there is no 12 month killing innocent wildlife you think the non-killing public would tolerate that ? Plus the intention of DNR making mucho money is buck deer with the antlers all buffed and thick so little cowardly men can destroy them to make themselves feel "important and "big". Killing animals for fun and amusement make not "sense" is pure sickness and their action is no different then serial killers who enjoy killing humans for amusement and sports.
DeliberateCruelty 2 years ago
That is what they do they kill in 3 short months although some have early season doe hunt (can you imagine the babies left orphaned)?
DeliberateCruelty 2 years ago
I bet you did not know that killing does actually creates more male fawns.
"Because fawns are born at approximately a 1:1 sex ratio, more bucks maybe born each year. Therefore, in some areas, you actually can increase the number of bucks born by shooting more does." Quality Deer Management
Its never been about "reduction" that is why CRE helps the hunting industry and they know about it and use it to their favor to produce more deer.
DeliberateCruelty 2 years ago
i understand that your are against hunting, i myself am a hunter but i understand why you would be against it for many reasons, however i believe that there is no problem with hunting for food, but there are many poachers and hunters who hunt for trophies, which doesn't make much sense to me, and hunters along with hikers and all outdoor enthusiasts who are not responsible enough to clean up after themselves, and leave garbage around i think that that is disgusting. what is your opinion on this?
rarebreed18 2 years ago
This is not about "food" this is about recreational hunting and what the heck does hikers have to do with "leaving garbage" that is something you made up.
DeliberateCruelty 2 years ago