Hunting to keep deer out of your garden
When I talk to locals about
the deer overpopulation problem, their inevitable response is "why
don't you get a gun?" The problem with hunting as a solution to
deer in the garden is that it's illegal to kill a deer out of season,
even on your own property, unless you get a special permit from the
game warden. Hunting during the normal season does keep deer out
of your garden...for about a week.
That said, I'm convinced that hunting is the long term solution to our
deer overpopulation problem, but only if our game laws are
changed. Currently, most game management agencies are actively
working to promote deer population growth, a throwback to a few decades
ago when deer were scarce. If laws are changed to allow hunters
to kill more does, we might be able to get our deer populations back
under control.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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