Wildlife Services Predator Control No Help for Deer Herds

[Horniac]

Has anyone been reading the three part investigative articles about Wildlife Services running on the front page of the Sacramento Bee?

The article claims that in areas where Wildlife Services operates their predator control programs such as the one that took pace in the Granite Range in Nevada that they can't see any discernible difference in deer numbers between the Granite Range and neighboring units where predator control does not take place. They even quote a mule deer biologist from the NDOW and NDOW director Ken Mayer in support of their claim.

I can't wait to see all the new proposed anti-predator control spin-off legislation this expos? is going to generate in CA.

Here is a link to part two of the report:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/30/4452212/wildllife-services-deadly-force.html?storylink=lingospot

I don't know what has gotten to the Sacramento Bee. Earlier in the month they ran a front page article on the decline of deer in CA and guess what, mountain lions aren't a problem either:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/08/4398312/california-deer-population-declines.html#storylink=misearch


Horniac

 

[RELH]

Horniac;

The Sacramento Bee is one of the most liberal newspaper in CA. It ranks right up there as being left wing liberal with the newspapers in San Francisco and L.A.

RELH

 

[TOPGUN]

Stats can be put up on just about anything and made to look like what the writer wants you to believe!!!

 

[brownie]

I read the article, it looked like it came out of the mouth of some animal rights group person. Dont know if the coyotes and the lions are all the problem, but i'll bet their a bigger problem than you think!

 

[eldorado]

No doubt the data is skewed. CA could definitely benefit from an aggressive predator control program.

Eldorado