Deer Pics

they may have tried but there are so many places in that pocket where it started west of Madison that won't be hunted , didn't get hunted lots of Madison people out that way now , who like to watch the deer , then complain when they eat the flowers and shrubs. they are funny to hear call into garden talk radio show , asking ways to discourage deer from their shrubs and gardens

CHootem , you gots to Choootemm then they don't eat nothing no more

what they did succeeded in was a buffer of almost over hunted farm land around a bunch of that mess

i think it got to it's sparsest about 3 years ago down here then people decided maybe they didn't need to fill so many free doe tags , even road kills were seeming few and far between but I am starting to see more deer and more car kills , but nothing like it used to be , if we didn't see a new one every day in the fall , usually 2-3 we must not have been looking

Sub-Urban deer, Bay Village, Ohio labor day 2014*

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A game preserve in the north eastern tip of our county in northeaster MO introduced CWD infected deer a few years ago. . I have to give MO dept of conservation credit. They jumped on the problem with both feet and fists at the ready. They did a cull of all the deer and red stag on the preserve, did an out of season hunt and tested all the animals that were harvested. CWD was found in the wild population so they did another special culling of wild deer around the danger zone and put new laws into place. No feeding of wild deer and they removed the four point rule on bucks. This last year I read where something like 2200 deer in the affected counties were tested after last years hunt. No CWD was detected. HOORAY!! The problem now is that we had blue tongue infect the deer last year because of the drought so the population is down. The last time we checked the game camera the only thing we saw were raccoons. But we are seeing hoof prints on our trails, both adult and fawn so they are out there, and we are finding rubs.

It's good to see some fat and sassy bucks. Wish we could put up a feeder like that one.

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