BOP
Well-Known Member
Just ask them.
Take hunting, for instance. They know it's just morally wrong to hunt and counter-intuitive to say that hunting keeps the numbers of a given species in check. Just ask them; they'll tell you...right before they declare that anyone who hunts should be tortured and/or murdered in cold blood.
Here's one the scientists actually got correct, and one where the decision makers actually came up with a viable solution, that actually worked.
The enviro-nazis bear-huggers probably aren't happy, especially since the desired result did not work...and most importantly, no more tax dollars are being wasted on hair-brained ideas. Libprogs are especially unhappy whenever the taxpayers' dollars aren't being wasted.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs...reated-buck-magnets-by-mistake?src=SOC&dom=fb
In an attempt to reduce its on-campus deer population by sterilizing does, Cornell University scientists inadvertently created “buck magnets” that regularly drew in new male deer from miles away. Not only did messing with the reproductive cycle of the does backfire in a big way, but it was also far more costly than allowing hunters to cull the herd.
In 2009, the Ithaca, N.Y., campus held a population of about 100 deer, which were destroying habitat, eating gardens, and causing collisions with vehicles, The Washington Post reports. Recognizing the need to reduce the population, but also bowing to pressure from those opposed to lethal control measures, a team of biologists captured 77 does and gave them tubal ligations—the doe’s fallopian tubes were blocked to permanently sterilize them. The operations cost $1200 per deer, a figure that doesn’t include the value of help donated by Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
In the five years since, fawn numbers have declined, although three sterilized does were somehow still able to give birth. The doe population also declined slightly, yet the overall deer population remained the same. “There were about 100 deer on campus when we started, and there were still about 100 deer [five years later],” said Paul Curtis, an extension wildlife specialist at Cornell.
Take hunting, for instance. They know it's just morally wrong to hunt and counter-intuitive to say that hunting keeps the numbers of a given species in check. Just ask them; they'll tell you...right before they declare that anyone who hunts should be tortured and/or murdered in cold blood.
Here's one the scientists actually got correct, and one where the decision makers actually came up with a viable solution, that actually worked.
The enviro-nazis bear-huggers probably aren't happy, especially since the desired result did not work...and most importantly, no more tax dollars are being wasted on hair-brained ideas. Libprogs are especially unhappy whenever the taxpayers' dollars aren't being wasted.
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs...reated-buck-magnets-by-mistake?src=SOC&dom=fb
In an attempt to reduce its on-campus deer population by sterilizing does, Cornell University scientists inadvertently created “buck magnets” that regularly drew in new male deer from miles away. Not only did messing with the reproductive cycle of the does backfire in a big way, but it was also far more costly than allowing hunters to cull the herd.
In 2009, the Ithaca, N.Y., campus held a population of about 100 deer, which were destroying habitat, eating gardens, and causing collisions with vehicles, The Washington Post reports. Recognizing the need to reduce the population, but also bowing to pressure from those opposed to lethal control measures, a team of biologists captured 77 does and gave them tubal ligations—the doe’s fallopian tubes were blocked to permanently sterilize them. The operations cost $1200 per deer, a figure that doesn’t include the value of help donated by Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
In the five years since, fawn numbers have declined, although three sterilized does were somehow still able to give birth. The doe population also declined slightly, yet the overall deer population remained the same. “There were about 100 deer on campus when we started, and there were still about 100 deer [five years later],” said Paul Curtis, an extension wildlife specialist at Cornell.
