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   From: fungus@amongus.com   
      
   On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:40:33 -0500   
   rdh  wrote:   
      
   > I doubt it, most hunters I know don't want to kill off so many deer that   
   > they upset the ecosystem, they just want to thin the numbers a bit.   
      
   Fair point.  That's true of the ones I know as well.   
      
   I was reading earlier that the White Tailed Deer is the only mammal that has   
   increased in number over the last three centuries; every other mammal has   
   decreased.  The White Tail also makes a mess of forest underbrush that changes   
   ecosystems permanently    
   for other species.  I've got a patch of forest that's totally ravaged from 8   
   feet down.  Impossible to grow anything to fill in the gaps, they eat it all   
   while the shoots are tender.   
      
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