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  • May 21, 2012

    Too Many Deer Destroying Bird Nesting Habitats?

    --Chad Love

    Are too many deer in the woods hurting biodiversity? That's the thought-provoking argument set out in this New York Times op/ed piece, which argues there are so many deer in the United States today that they are literally eating critical migratory bird habitat into oblivion.

    From this story in the New York Times:
    "...But one of the biggest contributors to the decline in migratory bird populations has gone largely unnoticed: white-tailed deer. By 1900, deforestation and unregulated hunting had reduced deer populations in the Eastern United States to tiny remnant clusters surviving in remote sanctuaries. But subsequent protective laws and aggressive habitat management allowed deer to bounce back. To this day, wildlife managers slice intact forests into sunny woodlots that maximize the number of deer and the frequency of encounters between deer and hunters. Private landowners are encouraged by wildlife agencies to crisscross their forest acreage with tasty plantings of clover and wheat in support of what is now a burgeoning population of perhaps 50 million white-tailed deer — in some places as many as 75 deer per square mile. 

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  • May 21, 2012

    NE Hunters to Compete with Non-Residents for Muley Tags

    --Chad Love

    Nebraska hunters are not happy about a proposal to allow non-resident hunters to shell out cash for a bonus mule deer tag while forcing residents who didn't manage to grab one of the first 1,500 resident tags to play the lottery game for those same tags.

    From this story on omaha.com:

    Nebraska is among the easternmost states with a stable population of mule deer. Last year, a special mule deer hunting unit in the southwest part of the state was the first to sell out of permits. This year, if more than 1,500 resident hunters want one of the $30 permits, the Game and Parks Commission plans to use a lottery to distribute them. 

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  • May 8, 2012

    ND Deer Pop. Suffers From Harsh Winters, Fewest Number of Tags Issued Since '88

    --Chad Love

    Just how brutal for northern plains wildlife were the winters of 2008-10? So bad that the number of deer tags available for North Dakota's upcoming 2012 deer season is the lowest number since 1988.

    From this story in the Bismarck Tribune:

    The 2012 deer season has been set and will have the fewest licenses available since 1988. Randy Kreil, wildlife chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said a total of 65,300 licenses will be available this year, 44,650 fewer than last year. Two major changes for hunters this year will be no issuing of mule deer doe tags in the state’s Badlands units and no concurrent season.

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  • May 7, 2012

    Release of Next Twilight Movie Postponed to Re-Shoot Hunting Scenes

    --Chad Love

    I'm willing to bet that (for the male readers, anyway) whatever knowledge you may have of the "Twilight" books and/or movies was gained through the reluctant and incidental osmosis of a wife, girlfriend, sister or daughter. It's about clowns, right?

    At any rate, it seems the release of whichever film is next up on the schedule has been delayed because the director had to re-shoot some important hunting scenes, apparently because he wanted to get the scenes of deer-hunting vampires as close to reality as possible.

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  • April 24, 2012

    Unlicensed Brooklyn Hipsters Shoot Out-of-Season Deer While Filming Movie

    --Chad Love

    You may as well just call this next story "Clash of the Zeitgeists" because it has it all: indie film, ironic urban hipsters, backwoods survival, an Apocalyptic event and slow food. It's like someone took a snapshot of Google Trends and decided to make a movie out of it. Now if someone could get that Gotye dude to score the soundtrack and then throw in a zombie attack it'd be perfect.

    From this story on DNAinfo.com:

    The actor who illegally gunned down a deer on camera for Tribeca Film Festival entrant "First Winter" has been charged for killing the animal. Paul Manza, a yoga instructor who played a main character in the film, admitted to shooting a pair of deer without a license and outside of hunting season for a scene in the movie where at least one of the animals was skinned, cooked and eaten on camera...

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  • April 20, 2012

    OK Hunters Can Now Tag Piebald Deer Without Written Permission

    --Chad Love

    If you see a white or piebald deer in Oklahoma this upcoming season, you no longer need a note from mommy to shoot it. OK, maybe you didn't need a note from mommy before, but you did need written permission from the director of the state's wildife department. Why? Who knows, but the rule is now gone.

    From this story on newsok.com:

    Oklahoma deer hunters no longer need permission from the state wildlife director before killing a white or piebald deer during the deer hunting seasons.Oklahoma lawmakers have repealed the prohibition against killing such deer without prior approval from the state wildlife director. House Bill 1314 was signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin last week and is effective immediately. 

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  • March 27, 2012

    Two Deer Chase Down Terrified City Slickers in Manhattan

    --Chad Love

    What do you call a deer on the loose in New York City: a Brooklyn Bambi, a Bronx buck, a masticating Manhattanite or maybe an Upper West Side ungulate?

    From this story in the New York Post:

    Yo, Bambi, welcome to New York! Two wayward deer bounded through an upper Manhattan housing project yesterday, romping across its courtyards and stunning its residents. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Marcus Bryant, 20, a ConEd worker who lives in the projects. The panicked animals even chased onlookers at the Marble Hill houses, at West 225th Street and Broadway.

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  • March 13, 2012

    Bill Would Mean Special Hunting Privileges For Terminally Ill Children in GA

    --Chad Love

    Terminally ill children would receive special hunting privileges if a bill making its way through the Georgia legislature is signed into law.

    From this story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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  • March 2, 2012

    New Evidence: Ancient Hunters Populated North America Earlier Than We Thought

    --Chad Love

    It's looking more and more like ancient hunters were in North America, earlier -- and sometimes much earlier -- than previously thought.

    From this story on bradenton.com:

    Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, was lead author on research published in the February 22, 2012 online edition of World Archaeology. Redmond and researchers analyzed 10 animal bones found in 1998 in the collections of the Firelands Historical Society Museum in Norwalk, Ohio.

    Found by society member and co-author Matthew Burr, the bones were from a Jefferson's Ground Sloth. This large plant-eating animal became extinct at the end of the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. "This research provides the first scientific evidence for hunting or scavenging of Ice Age sloth in North America," said Redmond. "The significant age of the remains makes them the oldest evidence of prehistoric human activity in Ohio, occurring in the Late Pleistocene period."

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  • March 1, 2012

    Deer Saves Ohio Woman From Mugger

    --Chad Love

    A startled deer was apparently scary enough to end a late-night assault on an Ohio woman.

    From this story on wptv.com:

    Oxford police say a deer helped stop an attack on a young woman early Sunday morning. Police tell 9 News that the woman had attended a party in the 500 block of Poplar Street in Oxford. At roughly 1 a.m., the woman left the party and walked close to a field that contained overgrown grass and some trees. It was there a male attacker grabbed her from behind and pulled on the purse that hung across her shoulders.

    The attacker struck her on the face and told her not to say anything. During the struggle, the man pulled the woman away from the lights of the party and the neighborhood and farther into the darkness of the field. Police say that's when the struggle woke up a deer that was sleeping nearby in the tall grass. Police say the deer was startled, jumped up and ran away. The large deer also startled the attacker, who got up and ran away, leaving the woman alone in the dark field. She went back toward the party and called 911."She is a very lucky girl," Sgt. Jon Varley with Oxford police said.

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