From: nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com   
      
   On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:50:58 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Feb 16, 2026 at 3:28:46 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-02-16 3:54 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>  BTR1701  wrote:   
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   >>   
   >> Ontario is much closer to California as these things go. When I lived in   
   >> London (Ontario), there was a provincial park not too far away that   
   >> regularly had deer and some of the locals noticed that the deer were   
   >> rather thin and scruffy-looking. They had also seen Bambi and decided   
   >> that these poor deer were hungry so they needed to be fed. Before too   
   >> long, the government was putting out food for them and, what do you   
   >> know, the deer population positively boomed! (A result even an idiot   
   >> could have predicted: put deer on welfare and there are going to be more   
   >> deer!)   
   >   
   >Years ago when I was working visits at Camp David, the Marines there talked   
   >about how the deer population was so out-of-control that they were literally   
   >clearing the forest floor of all new growth. They'd eat the sapling trees and   
   >bushes before they could get big enough to survive and as a result, other than   
   >the old growth trees, the forest was completely bare, which was a problem   
   >because the thick forest undergrowth is a significant security feature for   
   >Camp David. It blocks lines of sight to the presidential cabin, etc. and now   
   >it was gone, so the Secret Service and the Marines wanted to do something   
   >about the deer. They put out a solicitation for hunters in the area to hold a   
   >mass cull.   
   >   
   >Of course PETA and the other eco-kooks threw a fit, claiming it was kinder to   
   >the deer to let them starve and freeze to death than to cull the herd down to   
   >a manageable level and donate the venison to local homeless shelters. They   
   >held protests and threatened injunctions, basically all the crap they normally   
   >do to get in the way of normal life.   
      
   I get trying to protect animals but this is just being cruel to the   
   deer. You have to manage a herd and if they are running out of food   
   it's beneficial to the herd and the forest to remove many of the   
   animals. Whether that be killing them or capturing and moving them   
   elsewhere (much more expensive) it's still better than letting the   
   entire herd starve.   
      
   >Rather than fight it, the government publicly conceded, waited a few months   
   >for the whole thing to blow over, then quietly brought in the ATF at night   
   >with silenced rifles and NVGs and had them shoot hundreds of deer. They loaded   
   >the deer into big freezer trucks and took them halfway across the country   
   >where a sudden influx of venison at shelters wouldn't draw any notice and   
   >within a few months, the forest started growing back.   
   >   
   >The only problem is that by using stealth mode, PETA was able to claim victory   
   >and say, "See? If you just leave nature alone, it solves its own problems."   
   >   
      
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