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Your plausible options are rifles, predators, and poisons. I'm all for reintroducing more predators, but suburban sprawlers tend to get upset when their pets g

• saalweachter 12y ago
  One of the DEC guys I talked to was a big proponent of more fences. When you put up deer fences around fields, you don't just protect the crops inside, you also restrict the deer's movement and access to food. Of course, at the end of the day you're still ultimately in a "the deer population stabilizes at the point that deer start starving to death" situation, but you can at least lower the deer population to minimize both their impact on the environment and the number of adverse deer-car interactions.
• omegaham 12y ago
  Yep. A buddy of mine growing up had large numbers of feral dogs and cats running around. Solution: Dishes of antifreeze everywhere. There were too many to shoot, but antifreeze was cheap and effective. He said he had trouble sleeping because the dying animals screamed so much.