Threat of Axis Deer on the Big Island

[MarkP]

csgray made a point about hunters being willing to eradicate the deer. It is important to point out that it was almost certainly hunters that brought the deer, and local hunters who have vocally denounced the effective only effective method of eradicating mouflon sheep, hiring outside professional hunters to shoot them from the air.

Hunters like to hunt. Don't make the mistake of thinking they are part of the solution unless it is for a policy of maintaining a population of deer. As it stands now that would be rewarding someone for breaking the law and visiting a plague upon the people of the Big Island.