I can literally see a dead deer every few miles in some places. I imagine a portion of them are hit by larger trucks where an insurance claim isn't necessary.

I would like them to eat hunters.

New kind of guy: advocates veganism but only for obligate carnivores

Either that or they want to be given the go ahead to hunt wolves. And yeah, overpopulation of deer is bad for ecosystems as they clear out underbrush and prevent new growth trees from forming. This both limits biodiversity but also sets up a long term problem of barren landscapes when the old growth trees do finally die.

Hunting as a way to control animal populations is an important talking point by gun and hunting groups. If ecosystems can be put into a more natural equilibrium by reintroducing apex predators, then they lose this talking point.

Yeah deer are one of the only animals whose populations are higher than pre-Colombian exchange. We basically created their ideal environment across the entire country, forest at the edge of open field.

The most common causes of death for deer are, in order: Human hunting, car collisions, starvation, and last is predation (predation does outrank car collision in certain areas with few people and few cars). Very few animals are actually capable of taking down an adult deer, so if they survive to adulthood they’re almost guaranteed to be killed by a human or by living long enough they wear down their teeth until they can’t chew food anymore and starve to death.

I hear all the time about how there are too many deer and not enough deer licenses being issued.

This is the actual message of the sign.

"Isn't it terrible what those wolves due to deer" says person who is mad he only gets one tag this year because wolves actually naturally control deer populations.

I think they want to hunt wolves again. IIRC, Minnesota was the only state you could hunt wolves for a couple years, and I guess some folks miss it.

From 2019 - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/04/19/minnesota-house-votes-to-ban-recreational-wolf-hunting

From 2023 - https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/minnesota-wolf-hunting/

Pretty funny seeing pro-life billboards but for deer.

hot take: deer hunting is good as a substitute to fill an ecological niche while predators rebound, but whiny ass deer hunting is snowflakish and must be re-educated

"The wolves are killstealing"

Wolves are competing with them. That's the real deal. Not "safety of kids" or whatever fucking bullshit they spout.

Wolves are butting in on our territory!

Bucks have antlers to fight other bucks to fuck during the rut bucks don't even stick around for the birth let alone defend fawns from wolves lol

Unfortunately a lot of hunters want to hunt wolves because they see them as "taking their kills" whether that be elk or deer. Its fucking awful for the ecosystem and actually makes the deer population worse not to mention our Indigenous people are against it