Posted on 06/06/2013 8:06:43 AM PDT by goodwithagun
The booming deer population in the northern United States is bad for the animal's beloved hemlocks, a new study finds. During Michigan winters, white-tailed deer converge on stands of young hemlocks for protection from winter chill and predators. The same deer return every year to their favorite clumps of the bushy evergreens, called deeryards. The high concentration of deer in a small space saturates the soils with nitrogen from pee, according to a study published online in the journal Ecology. While deer pee can be a valuable source of nitrogen, a rare and necessary nutrient for plants, some deeryards are now too rich for the hemlocks to grow.
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Don’t encourage them.
Ticks, same problem here in NH. I never heard so much about Lyme disease 25 years ago. What happened?
They do realize there’s a solution for this on the books already, right?
It’s called deer season. Just increase the limit.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Oh, deer!
What’s going on? Is mother nature on vacation or what?
Hemlock grows NATURALLY, deer NATURALLY congregate in the hemlock groves, deer NATURALLY pee where they congregate, pee is NATURALLY rich in nitrogen, too much nitrogen NATURALLY kills the hemlock...
So NATURALLY I have to ask: What’s the problem here?
I pee all over my yard at night. I deliberately pee around the garden as a bunny deterrent.
But, but, but... deer pee is organic < /enviroidiot>
I pee all over my yard at night. I deliberately pee around the garden as a bunny deterrent....When I pee in my yard, it pi*ses off Hugh Heffener, ‘cause all the bunnies sit in my hot tub.
Ban all deer!
Bush’s fault?
The animals that prey on deer have been unnaturally removed.
I had a yellow lab, big guy, who pee'd in mostly the same place in my yard. It turned yellow and died. Had he spread the wealth, I'd bet our lawn would have been fine, but he spent all his efforts in one area and killed it.
I have a problem with my dog peeing and killing the grass in her fenced in area. Does anyone have any recommendations to fix this?
Guess we need to increase the bag limit ...
“...we finally got permission to put a deer fence around our back yard...”
You should move to America where we can put a fence around our yard if we want to or need to. No permission asked for or needed.
So, as I understand it, this is self correcting. Too many deer = too much deer pee = dead plants that deer eat = starving reduced deer population = less deer pee = more plants that deer eat = more deer. Cycle of life, isn’t it?
What is the EUROpeein’ solution to this problem?
Lime
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