Thread: Thermal Optics under scrutiny?

Originally Posted by gimp

It's a shared, cross-tenure problem.

Forests provide shelter.

Pastoral land provides feed.

There is not enough feed in the Ruahine forest to support a fraction of the population of deer. The most available and practical place to target deer for control is in open pastoral country.

Unfortunately with cross-tenure problems come different sets of values, and different priorities.

Yeah I get that 100%
But hunters need to step up when you can get to the tops with your kids and see mobs of deer running around that arnt frequenting farmland I believe there's the issue.
It's no secret that numbers out of hand, as a kid you'd never see a single deer around here now people are hitting them in cars on the road.
The first people to complain when the choppers come and do search and destroy is the hunters.


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