After several controversial years of killing their excess deer, a quartet of interior B.C. communities are set to debut a new system of merely deporting their unwanted ungulates.
To be rolled out later this winter, the $100,000 program would live-trap 80 deer from the Kootenay-region towns of Kimberley, Invermere, Cranbrook and Elkford, and then truck them to far-flung wilderness areas.
That's what happens when everybody is too stoned or old to poach.
ReplyDeleteThis is as stupid as a documentary I saw about the problems in Cape Breton Highlands Park caused by the exploded moose population. Nothing an open season wouldn't cure, but that wasn't even worthy of honourable mention as a viable solution. Instead, the bureaucrats were looking at a whole range of solutions that were much more bureaucracy-friendly in the most enduring ways: sterilization, transportation, introduction of wolves.
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