Cool bro, nice definitely real data about animals existing in nature you paid to put on that billboard. Now do cars
Incidentally, I was curious what this number actually is, but apparently no one is even attempting to keep track of how many deer are injured/killed by cars, despite frequently involving a police report and/or insurance claim
I can literally see a dead deer every few miles in some places. I imagine a portion of them are hit by larger trucks where an insurance claim isn't necessary.
It'd be a special kind of hell world if cars did a better job of deer population control than hunters given how much hunters lobby to shoot more deer
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...that's...good? My brother in Christ what do you expect a carnivore to eat?
I would like them to eat hunters.
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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
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.
I hear all the time about how there are too many deer and not enough deer licenses being issued.
Yeah this is so messed up, we need to stop these wolves from killing so many deer... Checks notes... so that we can kill them instead
You've got to have a fucked up baby brain to think that this emotional blackmail would fucking work.
What are they even trying to do?
It's either:
Wolves kill so many baby deers, so what difference does it make if we kill some too?
Wolves kill so many baby deers, let us kill the wolves to save the baby deers.
Haha, veggie, you love nature so much, what about wolves who kill so many baby deers, checkmate!
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.
Odd to pay for an add that says an animal is doing your thing but for free. we should release more wolves
Specifically into the homes of ranchers after we take their guns.
Unironically we should in areas where they're native but their numbers have been decimated
:gulag: for all of them. Ranchers, whiny ass deer hunters, all of them. Deer are so absurdly overpopulated that they've all got covid and zombie prions and they're destroying native plant life causing serious ecological problems and some asshole paid for a billboardz?
Where are the vegan wolves? 😔
Is this supposed to convince people who hate deer so much they shoot them with high powered rifles that wolves are their friends?
The tone and composition seems off for that but idk.
tHEY TOOk our joBS
Pweese let us shoot all the wolves? Fences are reeeally expensive and it's haaard. Look at the cute baby deer! What if we had to kill all the wolves?
Do the wolves kill so many fawns because the hunters are out there shooting all of their parents that might be able to protect them? The bucks have those antlers for a reason
Shouldn't they be hunting wolves then?
Unfortunately a lot of hunters want to hunt wolves because they see them as "taking their kills" whether that be elk or deer. Its fucking awful for the ecosystem and actually makes the deer population worse not to mention our Indigenous people are against it
Yeah the slowly rotting and festering countries in northern europe are doing this now. The conservative government in sweden is selling hunting licenses (trophy hunting) for (locally) endangered species like wolves and lynxes. Norway is doing something similar. I wish every trophy hunter a very naked-in-the-snow-and-pursued-by-wolves winter season
They shoot wolves from helicopters in Alaska to keep their moose numbers up and that trophy hunting tourism cash flowing in
Let’s juice that up a little, those are rookie numbers!
Where can I get some wolves
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The same hunters: hunting is necessary for culling the population
True, because we destroyed the predator population out of ignorant fear mongering and by destroying habitats
