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Are they suggesting that wolves be eliminated so these monsters have more deer to hunt? Also don't areas with deer population in US often complain about there being too many deer around?
Either that or they want to be given the go ahead to hunt wolves. And yeah, overpopulation of deer is bad for ecosystems as they clear out underbrush and prevent new growth trees from forming. This both limits biodiversity but also sets up a long term problem of barren landscapes when the old growth trees do finally die.
I think they want to hunt wolves again. IIRC, Minnesota was the only state you could hunt wolves for a couple years, and I guess some folks miss it.
From 2019 - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/04/19/minnesota-house-votes-to-ban-recreational-wolf-hunting
From 2023 - https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/minnesota-wolf-hunting/
Pretty funny seeing pro-life billboards but for deer.
Hunting as a way to control animal populations is an important talking point by gun and hunting groups. If ecosystems can be put into a more natural equilibrium by reintroducing apex predators, then they lose this talking point.
It's partially true, something needs to kill and scare deer or they'll starve out & destroy the habitat of every other animal in the area, but yes, wolves are waaaaaay fucking better at it and these idiots don't want em. If we were earnestly trying to restore a habitat it would be good to hunt there until the wolves get their population going
We need a MN Deer Hunters Hunters Association STAT
The Adam Ruins Everything segment on hunting pissed me off.
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I hear all the time about how there are too many deer and not enough deer licenses being issued.
Yeah deer are one of the only animals whose populations are higher than pre-Colombian exchange. We basically created their ideal environment across the entire country, forest at the edge of open field.
The most common causes of death for deer are, in order: Human hunting, car collisions, starvation, and last is predation (predation does outrank car collision in certain areas with few people and few cars). Very few animals are actually capable of taking down an adult deer, so if they survive to adulthood they’re almost guaranteed to be killed by a human or by living long enough they wear down their teeth until they can’t chew food anymore and starve to death.