DZ, ask them to define a "wildlife area". Does a farmer's field become a wildlife area if deer move into it?
Fencing: T-Posts on 20-foot spacing will run $1,500/mile, plus labor. Plus stays in between. Plus brace posts and corner posts at bends. 8' sheep/goat wire will run about $1,500 to $2,000 per mile. And let's don't forget gates. And more labor.
"Remove vegetation from roadsides." Duh? Burn the shoulders and borrow-ditches? There is more moisture on the side of the road than inside the fence, because of the runoff from the pavement. Therefore, there are more herbs and forbs between the pavement and the fence than inside the fence. Therefore, during dry times, the deer prefer the borrow-ditch area to their "proper" pasture.
How do you prevent people from feeding deer? Why, you pass a law! That's why nobody ever drives too fast, gets drunk in public, or smokes Progressive Pall Malls!
"Use flashlights or loud noises to scare..." Yeah, right. Folks going out at 2AM to see if deer are into the flowers? Sorry; some folks work for a living, and have a day job. Shame these "wildlife" folks don't; it might give them something worthwhile to think about...
The primary deer-habitat in Texas hasn't seen clear-cutting since before the squabble at the Alamo.
Ending "sport" hunting would do two things: First, it would turn the poachers loose, since there would be no money for game wardens. Second, the deer herd would expand faster than poachers and wolves/lions/bears could deal with it all.
Going on memory, one year in Llano, Mason and Brady Counties, Texas, the hunter kill was 17,000 deer. The winter kill was 15,000 deer. A mountain lion will happily kill a deer a week, if the deer are available. They probably wouldn't kill much more than that, if more deer were available. Let's give 'em one each four days, though. That's 90 deer per year per lion. 17,000 divided by 90 means right at 200 lions, just in Llano, Mason and Brady Counties! Hmmm. Ever think a lion might like sheep and goats more than deer? Or find them easier to kill?
Beam me up, Scotty!
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