11-09-2012, 07:14 PM
quote:That's what they said on Maui in the 1970's - hey, it's been 15 years since the deer were introduced and there are still only a few hundred or so, and they stay in the gulches and waste lands, so they're no big deal, right?
Originally posted by rainyjim
Out of curiosity if the axis's preferred hangout is in the aforementioned forested gulch areas that are apparently so difficult to get into that hunters don't even want to try, then what exactly is the issue? Can't they have their gulches? If they reproduce in large numbers and leave the gulch, then won't the hunters nab them then?
Now there are tens of thousands of them - sometimes in herds of 50-100 at a time - and during dry times in particular they move out onto ranches and farms and eat everything.
I'm really not trying to nag on you, but do you ever think things through or look up what's already happened before you comment?