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  • From: RW Spalinger <rwspal@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] people, piglets and deer
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:30:18 -0600


On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:24 AM, road's end farm wrote:


On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 05:08 PM, Peter Knop wrote:

We now have cayotes - anyone with experience in what they will do to
the deer population?

Here in SE Texas, at least in my area of it, we have coyotes. They don't seem to make a dent in the deer population though. Some farmers in the area claim that they kill calves, but I believe that it is more likely feral dogs. Our rabbit population is very small, so maybe that is what they are going after.

Farmers and ranchers in the area are at odds with any kind of predator, including owls, hawks, snakes, etc. and have killed off most of them. Maybe that's why our gopher population is so healthy. If it weren't for federal protection and large fines, the mating pair of American bald eagles on the next property to mine would be stuffed on someone's trophy case, or just shot and left where they fall. There seems to be little knowledge in the area of a balance of natural forces.

Randall Spalinger





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