Obviously, the reporter read about or heard about there being more deer and crashes and immediately jumped to “how do we blame anthropogenic climate change?”, because this is a cult
Car crashes, Lyme: Deer cause havoc in NY, and population is exploding amid climate change
More than 70,000 New Yorkers suffer injuries or financial hardships after their vehicles hit deer on roads each year, with an average repair bill of $4,000.
Another 7,000 residents fall seriously ill each year with severe pain, headaches, and other debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease — caused by bites from parasitic ticks that feed on deer to survive.
New York farmers also estimated their deer-related crop damage losses to be about $59 million per year, state records show.
And these costs are expected to get worse as the warming climate allows more deer to thrive across large swaths of New York.
Threats to humans from deer — which are primary hosts of adult ticks and crucial in spreading a range of illnesses — are already playing out in communities throughout New York, Cornell University Professor Bernd Blossey said.
“The deer come to us because what we have created is perfect deer habitat,” he said, referring to the gardens, farms, parks and other deer food sources built into many communities.
But deer overabundance, in many ways, stemmed from the first half of the 20th century. At the time, state environmental measures helped replenish deer populations after rampant deforestation and uncontrolled hunting wiped out 95% of the country’s deer in the 19th century.
Yeah, so, realistically, it’s that conservation laws were changed, less deforestation, and there were not as many predators for the deer (bear, bobcat, and coyote numbers are down in NY. Wolves were almost extinct, but, are making a comeback), as well as hunting was reduced, hence, an explosion on deer. That’s not to say that the slight temperature increase around the globe hasn’t helped, but, do they really notice a 1.5F increase in 170 years?
One easy fix would be to change the hunting laws saying that does must be targeted. No taking antlered feer until you have taken 3 does.
Another would be to try and increase the natural predators of deer ticks such as opposums
don’t dear text carry Lyme disease? Why on earth would you increase the insect that carries a disease like that?
HAHA. “Dear” ticks.
Looks like we have a solution to deer overpopulation. A solution that has already been tried and proven more effective than COVID vaccine.
Fun Fact: In New Zealand, they raise deer domestically for meat. Vast herds of them. It seems, when there is a profit motive, capitalists invest and build the infrastructure needed to earn that profit and along the way, feed millions of starving Chinese people. Hunter-gather societies just “collect” what they find laying around, like shoplifters in NYC.
nd these costs are expected to get worse as the warming climate allows more deer to thrive across large swaths of New York.
Another ffing qualifier.
Last time I went through NY, heading to Rochester, there were so many dead deer on the road that it looked like someone had been throwing their carcasses off of a truck.
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While it causes me some consternation, I agree with H on this one. Hunters are used in many areas to control the deer population. These tall rats are almost as destructive to agriculture as feral hogs. If you were to talk to game warden in agricultural areas most would probably agree and often can make provisions for a reliable hunter to thin the population where needed.
The Professor’s suggestion has merit except that we have an excellent beef industry. Hunters thinning deer or hog populations often have methods of legally distributing meat, in areas where it can be done. The Democratic Peoples Republic of New York probably doesn’t allow this, I do my best to avoid New York and have no first hand knowledge.