Originally Posted by
flatheadking06
You hit the nail on the head! Nature always finds a way to balance, I believe this whole heartedly. Mother Nature has a funny way of showing it sometimes i.e. natural disasters, but it will always work out.
Nothing wrong with being adults and having controversy over a subject... Its human nature lol.
And you are correct, the deer have moved into areas where they feel safe, and "man" has seen this as a decline in numbers instead of refocusing and understanding the population has just shifted. To say there is an over abundance of game, well I still have mixed thoughts. Deer were unheard of in the 80s in clark county. If you saw 5, man you were doing something! Over the last 3 decades the population has exploded, literally, and with deer being a creature of "edges" they can be found most everywhere nowadays. Very adaptable animals! But simply stating they are still there just not in area a but in area b doesnt solve the predatory problem. And vis versa, killing all the coyotes in an area where deer were prevalent doesnt do any good either. The state needs to come up with a system where these "over populated" areas can be hunted via a lottery system. This process has been in use and is still bein used today in metro areas around dayton to help curb the over populated areas. Huffman dam area, aroun wright pat and several other areas of the 5 river metro park area have this lottery system in use an I can only assume it helps with the deer control but I for know the statistics. If land owners, in areas where the state legislation allows, would open their land to hunters, they wouldnt have to complain about over abundance of deer and other game animals. By breaking that natural barrier where deer feel unthreatened and get them reintroduced into the reality of a balance ecosystem, they wouldn't congregate heavily in those areas where they are deemed over populated and then there would be no need for all the 'yote killers. Looking back through the years though, trappers were an essential element to the foundry of this nation... Some bagging over 1000 critters including coyotes a season... It was a means of living back then. Too often today, people seek hunting/fishing as a means of a trophy expedition and lose sight of what these privileges were traditionally used for- sustainability. But sometimes natures way needs a helping hand. For example, the wild/feral hog issue most states are finding now. These hogs are devastating to the local indigenous species and eat anything they can fit in their mouths. In almost every place the hogs can be found, coyotes and other natural predators are present but they arent controlling the population and the hogs are taking over all while driving the natural wild game out of the area. If left unchecked, the only game available would be the hogs. So should they be left alone to just let Mother Nature do her thing? Absolutely not! Just as the coyote issue we have at hand. Again I dont believe just going out and shooting everyone of them you see is the solution to the problem, but rather having the state come up with an alternative to get natural prey back into the area the belong will help reduce coyote occurrences.
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