The ONLY thing that should be used to regulate the hunting season and bag limits are scientific research. This is not even close...it's a feel good survey that I hope is not being used to determine regulations. The decline of the number of harvested deer in the last several years is an indicator (though not a scientific one) that the population might be dropping off.
The ONLY thing that should be used to regulate the hunting season and bag limits are scientific research. This is not even close...it's a feel good survey that I hope is not being used to determine regulations.
Please trap and relocate the urban deer to my property please! The numbers dont lie, this is what the general population wants. I should spear head a fund raiser to relocate away from the population dense areas to my f̶r̶e̶e̶z̶e̶r̶ deer paradise.
I really like the part where 48% were pro-sterilization, but 81% would not want to help, and 74% do not want to pay. It is almost like we live in a state where the general population expects things to be "free".
I couldn't agree more Muleskinner. Well said.
To your point about rifles in shotgun counties (deer), I have been pointing this out to people forever. I can go squirrel hunt with a 30-06 blasting them while aiming up in trees (obviously I don't do this) but I can't hunt deer with the same rifle from an elevated tree stand shooting down into the ground. Makes sense right?
A bit off topic but when I was younger I was stopped on my Personal watercraft for not wearing a life jacket. I was respectful to the officer but told him I found it odd that I lawfully had to wear a life jacket while cruising on my pwc but I could get off the pwc and INTO the water and was not required to wear it. I understand the law, just seems a little backwards.
Unfortunately the Maryland DNR has a history of using emotion and socio-economic mumbo jumbo to steer their regulation creation which has led to some very undesirable and nearly catastrophic results. The waterman's lobby in Assapolis is very powerful and the biologists who fight against them usually are shown the door.