Thanks for the article. I'm sorry to read about the virus, though it has to be better for the surviving blacktails.
The islands have had an overpopulation problem since I before moved here, some years worse than others. Even then, they didn't have enough hunters to control the population, although many oldtimers would lay in a deer in the fall, and they have no predators on the islands. In my four years up there, I hit at least six deer with my car. My roommate's Plymouth was known as the deer slayer.
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Date: 2021-11-18 02:41 am (UTC)The islands have had an overpopulation problem since I before moved here, some years worse than others. Even then, they didn't have enough hunters to control the population, although many oldtimers would lay in a deer in the fall, and they have no predators on the islands. In my four years up there, I hit at least six deer with my car. My roommate's Plymouth was known as the deer slayer.