PnR New Years Resolution

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(01-02-2020, 05:15 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I eat them.

I mean, in all seriousness I use as much of an animal as possible and I've never (intentionally) killed an animal I didn't intend to eat. 

But I'll eat any type of meat. Not just deer, bear and turkey, but a lot of the animals people think of as nuisance species and just kill them to get rid of them can also be good eating.

A good policy to eat what you kill, but I don't mind killing a mole or a raccoon and not eating them. Or a spider. **** spiders.

Had a raccoon eating through shingles and insulation, made a big hole in the roof. Not sure that you'd want to cook a raccoon that was living off a diet of shingle and insulation. Lol

(01-02-2020, 06:24 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: However, thanks to the work of naturalists during that time (including Theodore Roosevelt) and the implementation of the NA model, we now have larger populations of whitetail and turkey than ever before.

There are places where we actually run into the issue of not enough hunters to properly manage the numbers of deer and turkey.

Definitely too many deer. 

I think some Cincinnati parks were seeing populations of like 100 deer per square mile, when the ideal sustainable number is like 15-20 per square mile.

Too many deer and they strip the vegetation clean during the summer/fall, leaving them nothing to eat in winter. I remember that drought we had in like... 2013-ish? They were eating everything. We had a tree sapling (like 6' tall) that we planted earlier that year and they ate the tree down to the stump.