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To: chessplayer
Yeah, lets slaughter all the wildlife so the health of the forests is improved even more.

You should read up on this before commenting.

Deer kill more Americans every year than any other animal (about 150).

Around 1900, there were about 500,000 deer in the U.S. Today, there's over 20 million, a 40x increase.

Have you been in a forest lately? That "cathedral" effect isn't natural. There's supposed to be both shrubs and saplings. They've all been eaten by deer. Notice the dead or dying older trees that have had all their bark rutted off? Deer again.

If you don't think that's a problem for the future of forests and the environment, you're just plain wrong.

17 posted on 03/30/2012 3:58:11 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: South Hawthorne

“Around 1900, there were about 500,000 deer in the U.S. Today, there’s over 20 million, a 40x increase.”


Around 1900 we were slaughtering off all wildlife we could get in our gunsights, driving many species to the brink of extinction.

“Deer kill more Americans every year than any other animal (about 150).”


Interesting way you phrased that. Do they deliberately jump in front of cars so they can kill someone? Or do they actually hunt down people in the woods to kill them?


46 posted on 03/30/2012 4:28:11 PM PDT by chessplayer
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