Time to step up to the plate, Corzine!

[fyrfyter43]

http://www.ussportsmen.org//Page.aspx?pid=1648&srctid=1&erid=1761768

 

Three state legislators have called on New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine to do something about the state’s growing bear problem.

[McDave]

Reminds me of a friend, who was the head of CA Fish and Game many years ago.  Marin County, just north across the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco, was, and probably still is, overrun by deer.  Nobody could raise a garden or plant shrubs without the deer eating everything up.  People complained, so he recommended an archery deer season in Marin County.  Well!  You would think he had recommended an archery season on little children!  That's not what they had in mind at all.  I think what they had in mind was something like teaching the deer about safe sex.

Later, some friends there who knew I was a bowhunter pleaded with me to bring my bow and shoot the deer that were eating up all their shrubs.  Said I could shoot the deer right out their kitchen window.  I was tempted, but I think they had the perception that my bow was something like a silent 30.06 that would drop the deer right in their tracks where they were munching the shrubery, and we could drag them quickly into the garage and cut them up into steaks and chops.  The idea that the deer would be running through neighbors yards with an arrow sticking out of it was not so appealing, so I never took them up on it.

[draco]

The Sun City retirement sub-division that is 6 mi. from my house spent $38,000 to trap and relocate 214 deer this year. I was told this by the lady that over sees the whole mess. Losses from stress were very high she said.

[Brian Krebs]

draco:
 Is there a way to find out the stats on that? We have a problem with deer in Salmon Idaho; and the mayor is against killing them. Meanwhile people who have always depended on growing their own food are losing all their efforts to the deer .....