Dear “girls against hunting” — and I don’t see why that is a sexist remark. Like all that I said in my Oct. 7 letter, it is a fact, unless Kim, you are male.
To correct a few things: My wife’s accident happened when she was STOPPED. A deer ran into her. Stopping on a busy road is dangerous in itself; she could as easily been rear-ended by a car.
Deer collisions have surpassed hunting as the way we reduce deer herds. You anti-hunting people have helped here, which is what made me angry.
A 2005 study of 13 northeastern states including New Jersey found that the annual cost of deer accidents was $390,000,000 at over $2,000 per collision. That is surely understated as these accidents are often not reported. None of the eight that we’ve had were reported.
Your statement that hunting doesn’t work in reducing the deer population is ludicrous. The North American deer population was 500,000 in 1900, thanks to the original settlers’ hunting habits and natural predators. Today the population approaches 30 million. Where the whitetail deer live in the eastern part of the country, it is a serious problem costing a billion dollars annually.
The developers of your so-called benign solution GonaCon, the Department of Agriculture, in their web site say “no” to the question will GonaCon eliminate the need for hunting. And nowhere has this product, which has been around for a decade, been successful by itself in controlling the deer herd.
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