WW likes the dying quiver....
Ok after readin all the debate, snot flyin, whining, cryin, here is my small story from the east.
We have a small mountain range here called the Appalachian Mountains. In this lies the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, in this lies a area called Cades Cove. In Cades Cove there is a 11 mile loop, black topped even, that you can drive, walk or ride bicycles and enjoy watching wildlife, which includes:whitetail deer, black bear, coyotes and various birds and small animals. Now they have reintroduced the Red Wolf into this area, I think it has been 3 yrs now.
It is illegal to hunt in Cades Cove.It has not been hunted since the 1800's. The deer population, just like everywhere else, has exploded. In years past our wildlife division would trap the deer and relocate them to other areas of the state where populations were lower.
So now we have the Red Wolf to control the deer population. So far I hear they are doing well and mutilpying like rabbits. Also they are not staying in Cades Cove, 3 of them, radio tracking collars, have been located 75 miles from there and 2 found dead.
It would have been cheaper, less controversy, if they would have held special hunts in this area to control the deer population. They could have even made money from it by setting it up on a lottery draw system. But they chose the Red Wolf route and now we all must live with that decision.
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 03-31-2002 08:33: Message edited by: FLIPPER ]</font>
Ok after readin all the debate, snot flyin, whining, cryin, here is my small story from the east.
We have a small mountain range here called the Appalachian Mountains. In this lies the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, in this lies a area called Cades Cove. In Cades Cove there is a 11 mile loop, black topped even, that you can drive, walk or ride bicycles and enjoy watching wildlife, which includes:whitetail deer, black bear, coyotes and various birds and small animals. Now they have reintroduced the Red Wolf into this area, I think it has been 3 yrs now.
It is illegal to hunt in Cades Cove.It has not been hunted since the 1800's. The deer population, just like everywhere else, has exploded. In years past our wildlife division would trap the deer and relocate them to other areas of the state where populations were lower.
So now we have the Red Wolf to control the deer population. So far I hear they are doing well and mutilpying like rabbits. Also they are not staying in Cades Cove, 3 of them, radio tracking collars, have been located 75 miles from there and 2 found dead.
It would have been cheaper, less controversy, if they would have held special hunts in this area to control the deer population. They could have even made money from it by setting it up on a lottery draw system. But they chose the Red Wolf route and now we all must live with that decision.
<FONT COLOR="#800080" SIZE="1">[ 03-31-2002 08:33: Message edited by: FLIPPER ]</font>