And don't even think of messing with those pink flamingos on my lawn, buster!
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Posted on 12/08/2002 6:23:21 AM PST by SJackson
And don't even think of messing with those pink flamingos on my lawn, buster!
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That bear mold must've been ... well, a bear. <|:)~
There are people who jack deer. They kill them late at night to put in their freezers. They like tasty deer.
While wild life officials all across the United States are considering ways to diminish the deer population. Bambi birth control and Bambi relocation efforts have been considered and tried.
These are the same people who are trying to trap deer hunters...
AAAUUUURRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!
This year it has been grouse. Lots of folks down here on the peninsula getting hefty fines and their liscenses confiscated for shooting at grouse decoys from the road.
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Green Bay plans urban deer huntPopulation control could begin by next month
By Karen Rauen
krauen@greenbaypressgazette.com
After more than a year of brainstorming, Green Bay could be just more than a month away from reducing its pesky urban deer population.
The city is working toward a two-pronged approach to reduce the deer herd.
Long-term bow hunting by qualified hunters in specified areas of the city could help manage the city’s deer population, said Frank Roznik, manager of the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
In the short term, the city is in the process of applying to the state Department of Natural Resources for an Urban Deer Control grant, which would provide funds to bring in sharpshooters to reduce the urban deer population.
Green Bay aldermen on the far east side have received complaints from constituents for the last couple of years: Deer in the road, deer eating the garden, deer eating the crops.
“I lost everything this year,” said Echo Hill Drive resident Roxanne Nimmer. “They ate things they’ve never ate before.”
And they keep getting smarter. No matter what she tries to keep them at bay, the deer come back to feast on her hostas, tiger lilies, apples, beans, tomatoes and cucumbers.
Such problems spurred the creation of a Deer Control Subcommittee that has worked to find a safe, effective and economical solution. The committee recently came up with a framework of how the city will handle urban-deer management.
Hunting already goes on in the city. Farmers who have large amounts of crop damage can go through a state DNR program facilitated locally to allow hunting on their property. The state has had deer-damage assistance for farmers since 1931.
“The city is using that same program to extend further in Baird’s Creek after the regular season ends,” Roznik said. Green Bay also has authorized hunting in another section of land on the city’s northeast side, where it borders the town of Scott.
Although the nuts and bolts still are being worked out, Roznik envisions that hunters who have been qualified and had background checks will be able to bow hunt in the expanded areas.
The program likely would begin in January and continue through April. It would discontinue in summer and start again after August.
Hunters would be under specific limitations and signs would be placed in surrounding areas warning of the deer management.
“The problem is anytime you have too many deer … they overpopulate and the carrying capacity of the land is far exceeded,” he said. That’s when the deer start to destroy their habitat.
Paul Hartman, Brown County UW-Extension horticulture agent, is familiar with damage done by deer to the vegetation along Baird Creek.
“There’s too many,” Hartman said. “The main concern is that a high deer population … will tip the balance in the ecology of the area. You end up where you don’t get the natural production that you should get.”
White cedar trees are a good example, he said. They won’t reproduce well because the deer eat saplings before they can get big enough to reproduce.
In the Baird Creek area, Roznik said, there are 350 deer. He hopes to remove about 200 deer.
Eventually, once the system is in place on the east side, it will expand into other areas of the city with deer problems.
“It’s a very difficult topic,” Roznik said. “I think the deer are great, too,” he said. But even at the Wildlife Sanctuary, “we have to manage deer every year, otherwise our vegetation resources would be destroyed.”
In Wisconsin, the fake deer are being used to nab hunters who are shooting from their vehicles or shooting from the roadway. If these idiots were actual hunters and walked the few yards into the woods, they'd realize that the deer the DNR put out were fakes.
Maybe they just didn't want to get their boots dirty.
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