http://www.ugadeerresearch.org/south-florida-deer-study/
This is your deer tag money at work. In my opinion, this is a good thing. They helicopter netted 100 deer and fitted them with gps collars. There was a meeting in So Fla the other day and this is the synopsis so far (3 months into this study):
In a span of 3 months, 20 of the deer are dead.
5 from stress of the capture
11 confirmed panther kills
3 unknown/unconfirmed predator kills
1 natural causes
This is a 5 year plan and has already been funded.
That site is pretty interesting, even if it is UGA :rolleyes ! Must be quite a program to study deer in so many other states. Articles loaded fine but pictures were very slow to load, must be somethin' on my end.
Thanks for posting the site.
Treefarmer
edit: seems like a high mortality rate in just 3 months, if that is common, no wonder there is a big decline in the south Florida deer herds.
60% of the population in a year to predation if you run 3 months out over a year. I'd say that's bad
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That looks like down4dacount's treestand... I think I might see him, the secret is out!
:taz
:saluting
So maybe panther hunts should open up to protect the deer?
