Deer Vehicle Accident related deaths has DOUBLED in the last 15 years and the states AP mentioned are the states with the most hunters. How could that be so?!!
During those 15 years didn't DNR and Wildlife Agencies realize what they are doing is not working or maybe its deliberate.? How long to they think they can fool the public?
LAWSUIT ANYONE? "Over 1.5 million deer/vehicle crashes occur per year in the U.S., causing over $1.1 billion in vehicle damage, more than 29,000 human injuries and 150 deaths." Statistics may be boring, but they are consistent. It dictates that given 30 million deer roaming across the land, and given 3-trillion vehicle-miles per year on American highways, and, not least of all, given a hunting reason entertaining 1.5 million hunters in Pennsylvania alone, and 15 million across the land, which causes deer to blindly dash out of forests into the path of speeding vehicles in evasion of the lethal human intruders the hunters, there WILL be about 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) or deer-vehicle accidents (DVAs), which WILL cost about 1.5 million deer lives and about 150 human lives, plus about 30,000 human injuries. According to hunting sources, there were originally about 30 million white-tailed deer in America. History went through a period of unregulated "market hunting", which decimated the deer population to some 300,000 nation-wide, and zero in certain states including Indiana. Since then, the deer population had rebounded back to its original number of about 30 million, but in a much reduced area, due to human occupation of their previous range, including vast tracks of farm land that used to the deer habitat. This creates an over-population density situation, which causes ecological damage as well as human deaths. This begs the question as to how this could be possible and how it could have happened. The answer is that the deer population is being inadvertently as well as intentionally cultivated to overpopulation densities by human manipulation of the environment. Inadvertently, due to clear cut logging, which opens up broad expanses of sunlit pastures rich in deer food, and intentionally, due to the deliberate super-feeding of deer by means of food plots, basically clear cut areas deliberately seeded with deer food crops. And this begs the question as to why. The answer is this: There are 300 million Americans, of which only about 6% hunt, which, though a small minority, still amount to 15 million hunters, most of whom hunt deer, each targeting at least one, requiring 15 million deer to give them the baseline satisfaction. The departments of Natural Resources and of Wildlife in some states also impose the rule that to get a buck, a hunter must first kill one or more does. Plus the temptation that the more licenses and permits the state sells, the greater the revenue. All in all, Pennsylvania alone requires some1.5 million deer per year to satisfy its 1.5 million hunters, and America requires 10-million-plus deer to satisfy the 10-million-plus deer hunters. Thus, the food plots across the American semi-wild landscape. And thus the high deer-vehicle collision rates, and deer deaths, and human deaths. I repeat. Statistics dictates that given the deer overpopulation, and the vehicle-mile volume, and the deer hunting season, there WILL be so many human deaths. And I repeat - human deaths. The policy makers should understand this, or they are incompetent. If they are not incompetent, the only logical conclusion is that the accidents and collisions are deliberately caused, collateral damage, as it were. It follows that the human casualties and fatalities are themselves deliberately caused. This is legal in war, but not in peace. Is Pennsylvania at war? If not, then a serious crime has been committed. It is called premeditated murder, Murder One. Maybe even a crime of terrorism, because we never know when and where a DVA will occur, only that it will happen, and innocent people will be hurt or killed. And they have been hit, and killed. I suggest getting all the families of the accident victims together and launching a class lawsuit for wrongful death. by Anthony Marr Anthony Marr, founder Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
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80% of DVAs happen at night when there are no hunters in the woods. I'm not saying hunters dont cause a few DVAs but 2 main causes they go up in the fall is because farmers are in the field picking crops. The deer feed on these crops and when they are being picked they run out of the fields and sometimes end up being hit by a vehicle. Bucks also come into rut in the fall so they are walking around constantly looking for the next doe to breed. So dont point fingers before you know the facts
skidoosnowmachine 2 years ago
Rut is part of nature but you also have Wildlife Agencies providing deer to satisfy million of hunters so that mean by deer killing season you have that extra million that was not necessary but because of 'hunting' it was provided.
Look at what written in the PA Game Commission website on why they have "deer management".
"We strive to maintain a deer herd that each year that can provide quality sport to more than a million hunters. "
Then 'hunters' spook the deer out of the forest too.
Shayanne1212 2 years ago
That is why DVA's are the highest in the fall during 'hunting' season and why states with the most 'hunters' have the most deers thus DVA's.
Shayanne1212 2 years ago
Yeah you say the same old crap as the rest of the anti hunters. The PA Game Commission is the worst in the U.S. and needs help. Deer populations are not maintained to satisfy hunters. Hunters are needed to keep the number of deer within the carrying capacity of the land. Think of all the crops being harvested in the fall, these crops were a main food source and bedding area for deer, but then farmers harvest there crops and the deer go running and get hit.
MnDeerHunter09 2 years ago
You all love to use your crop theory because all the other BS is just that, BS. Maybe they are going into the crops to hide from the wildlife serial killers because they are not safe in their own home!
Sure its maintained straight from the Pa game commission and that is how most Wildlife Agencies work. Every state that has the most 'hunters' seem to have the most DVA's for many years, And why do DNR rejects deer birth control if DVA and overpopulation is such as issue.?
Shayanne1212 2 years ago
The report also confirms that most wild animal collisions occur during early morning (5am-7am) or after sunset (5pm-11pm). Deer hunting is permitted one half hour before sunrise and one half hour after sunset. I am sure these widllife serial killers wants to slaughter after work and before work.
Shayanne1212 2 years ago