[Market-farming] Wire deer guards
Diana Jancek
dijaan at charter.net
Wed Jun 18 12:51:29 EDT 2008
I have a few "gentleman land owners" and near neighbors with PVC
contraptions fastened to trees filled with last nights Doritos that I
would gladly donate to the pond to help those alligators out.....
Willie McKemie wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:41:08AM -0400, Allan Balliett wrote:
>
>> if we're thinking ecologically: is there really any function for deer
>> in the lowlands? What would the consequences be if they were 'gone'?
>> With all the crop damage and now Lyme (which has hit both my dogs
>> and, probably, me), why put up with 'em? -Allan in WV
>>
>
> I've read, and I have no reason to doubt, that there are far more deer
> in the North America now than there were before Europeans came. There
> are vast urban and rural areas now where it is not permissible to thin
> them. Not to mention the gentleman land owners that cultivate them for
> their supposed decorative value.
>
> We need more cougars! That would also do wonders for the un-kept pet
> and stray dog problems. Reminds me of an old joke. A couple of
> hippies living by a pond were bothered by frog croaking all through the
> night. Perhaps impaired from smoking dope, one went out and found an
> alligator and introduced it to the pond. Instant quiet. The other
> hippie was pleased with the results, but the mental haze cleared and he
> thought: "Yeah, we fixed those frogs. Now, all we have is ALLIGATORS."
>
>
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