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Dont you have Lyme disease in MD yet? Deer look pretty until you see people end up crippled by tick borne diseases. We need a serious cull in the NE.
by rb808 9y ago
Dont you have Lyme disease in MD yet? Deer look pretty until you see people end up crippled by tick borne diseases. We need a serious cull in the NE.
- cafard 9y agoLyme disease has been around Maryland for years. I have known people to get it in the DC suburbs, one in his own back yard, one in a park. The US Park Service has culled deer in Rock Creek Park (Washington, DC) the last two or three winters. The neighborhood email list gets an invitation to join a candlelight vigil against this each fall. (No, I don't join.)
- throwanem 9y ago> The neighborhood email list gets an invitation to join a candlelight vigil against this each fall. The venison from deer so culled goes to feed homeless folks in their town. From [1]: After reduction operations, the National Park Service tests the deer to make sure they don't have Chronic Wasting Disease before the venison is donated to local food banks. The NPS has donated approximately 7,300 pounds of venison to DC Central Kitchen since beginning deer management in 2013. I wonder if the vigileers know that. Or whether they care. Or whether they'd even approve. [1] https://www.nps.gov/rocr/learn/management/white-tailed-deer-management.htm https://www.nps.gov/rocr/learn/management/white-tailed-deer-...
- cafard 9y agoYes, they know. I doubt they approve. Are those at the vigils all vegetarians? I have no idea.
- throwanem 9y agoWe do, and I've heard rumors of Rocky Mountain spotted fever as well. Don't get me wrong - I'm not in favor of letting whitetail breed explosively, unmolested by hunters; quite aside from the issue of tick-borne zoonoses, it's a waste of good venison.