12-12-2004, 09:46 AM
I hope any one reading this well written artical with a grain of salt.
it points out short commings by kensington's attempts to aleviate a population problem.
first of all they do it at the wrong time of the year, by january the deer have already mated. what is worse is that the deer will move in and out of the park at will. a simplier method would be to fire a cannon blast at them during the daylight hours during the day to drive the deer out of the park twards other hunters. thus not needing to matain a sharp shooter program. By not running the scair blast during november it allows deer from surounding areas to migrate to the park for safe haven. and as long as the deer are not stressed for food the remaining deer will fill in the gap.
second by targeting dominate males is only a snipe by night trophy hunt. to fully take atvantage of this type of hunt you need to hunt does. two thirds of the deer to be taken should have been does not 100% bucks. By doing this they are not curbing next years population they are actualy making it worse. mature male deer require more food and teritory than does and fawns. more does in the area will attract more males from outer areas to challange each other for mating rituals.
like thay said deer are not stupid, they know when they are being hunted. and they will act accordingly.
as for kensington giving the carin to the food bank I have serious reservations to the validity of that statement. The dont have to prove it to me and they intend on keeping it that way. I have tryed on a number of ocations to find out which bank the product goes to in addition to obtaining even a small amount for programs in my community. I have even offered to take the carcus whole and have it proccessed by our organization, it dosnt seem to matter.....
any way kensington program fails in both therie and pratice in their own account. but as all the rest of us know that with out a prediter that what ever program is used it will have to be an anual program untill they reintroduce a natural preditor to the park and we know that aint going to happen.... not to be rude or insulting Brock needs to rethink her mind set on this one. She Proves to me that she dose not know what a natural check and balance is.
I ask you how hard would it be to have the park closed down for 15 days of gun season and drive around with a blast cannon and drive the deer out of the park and let the hunters do what comes natural?
we already know that just moving the deer to another location has by far worse reprocussions transmitting genneraly located virouses and desease to other heards. the cost of quarenteen per deer is astronomical and is at best only a 50/50 crap shoot from spreading something.
as I said I mean no disrespect I just find it frustrating seeing people who show beond a shadow of a doubt that they do not posess the knolage or skills to manage a farm placed in charge of managing a heard population. even if it is a wild population. I mean realy how hard is it to pick up the eggs before they hatch?
Maybe Brock is a little more craftier than she lets on. after all kensinton is a park. and waiting to take trophy bucks by shining methods during the cover of night dose allow for speculation of the program. waithing till january asures that the mating has been compleated and allowing 100% of the does to remain every year allows for maximum amount of births to show up every spring for incoming park ticket sales...[crazy]
What do you think, am I off my rocker on this?[shocked]
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it points out short commings by kensington's attempts to aleviate a population problem.
first of all they do it at the wrong time of the year, by january the deer have already mated. what is worse is that the deer will move in and out of the park at will. a simplier method would be to fire a cannon blast at them during the daylight hours during the day to drive the deer out of the park twards other hunters. thus not needing to matain a sharp shooter program. By not running the scair blast during november it allows deer from surounding areas to migrate to the park for safe haven. and as long as the deer are not stressed for food the remaining deer will fill in the gap.
second by targeting dominate males is only a snipe by night trophy hunt. to fully take atvantage of this type of hunt you need to hunt does. two thirds of the deer to be taken should have been does not 100% bucks. By doing this they are not curbing next years population they are actualy making it worse. mature male deer require more food and teritory than does and fawns. more does in the area will attract more males from outer areas to challange each other for mating rituals.
like thay said deer are not stupid, they know when they are being hunted. and they will act accordingly.
as for kensington giving the carin to the food bank I have serious reservations to the validity of that statement. The dont have to prove it to me and they intend on keeping it that way. I have tryed on a number of ocations to find out which bank the product goes to in addition to obtaining even a small amount for programs in my community. I have even offered to take the carcus whole and have it proccessed by our organization, it dosnt seem to matter.....
any way kensington program fails in both therie and pratice in their own account. but as all the rest of us know that with out a prediter that what ever program is used it will have to be an anual program untill they reintroduce a natural preditor to the park and we know that aint going to happen.... not to be rude or insulting Brock needs to rethink her mind set on this one. She Proves to me that she dose not know what a natural check and balance is.
I ask you how hard would it be to have the park closed down for 15 days of gun season and drive around with a blast cannon and drive the deer out of the park and let the hunters do what comes natural?
we already know that just moving the deer to another location has by far worse reprocussions transmitting genneraly located virouses and desease to other heards. the cost of quarenteen per deer is astronomical and is at best only a 50/50 crap shoot from spreading something.
as I said I mean no disrespect I just find it frustrating seeing people who show beond a shadow of a doubt that they do not posess the knolage or skills to manage a farm placed in charge of managing a heard population. even if it is a wild population. I mean realy how hard is it to pick up the eggs before they hatch?
Maybe Brock is a little more craftier than she lets on. after all kensinton is a park. and waiting to take trophy bucks by shining methods during the cover of night dose allow for speculation of the program. waithing till january asures that the mating has been compleated and allowing 100% of the does to remain every year allows for maximum amount of births to show up every spring for incoming park ticket sales...[crazy]
What do you think, am I off my rocker on this?[shocked]
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