KevinF
Well-Known Member
They will also be happy that the population is dropping to near nil around the region for the same reasons, and your rival will maybe even getting a good name for himself among the farming community as an efficient deer manager.
One of several good points you make there, MS.
Not all landowners subscribe to the principle that deer should be controlled to the point where their amenity value is in balance with an acceptable amount of tree damage. For them, the concept of management as many of us here on SD understand it is anathema. The only good deer is a dead deer, and the only acceptable amount of tree damage is no tree damage. Someone prepared to shoot on sight, but within the law, thereby becomes a local hero.
Then there are the landowners who view deer simply as a convenient and cost-free salary supplement for gun-toting employees. "Shoot as many as you want. I don't want to know." It is an invitation to slaughter.
Sadly, as a neighbour to one or other of these civic-minded types, one has no option but to accept it.