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[MaximumZero]

Man, I despise guns for the most part, but even I'd definitely encourage hunting overpopulated animals. Deer can be quite a problem here, too. Their numbers just explode if you don't keep them in check.

We should look to DF for inspiration: Build a very tall tower with a trapdoor, and lots of butchers and tanners clustered around below. Deer tallow biscuits for everyone!

I'll have a deer meat roast. I get fancy with my venison.

[IronTomato]

Man, I despise guns for the most part, but even I'd definitely encourage hunting overpopulated animals. Deer can be quite a problem here, too. Their numbers just explode if you don't keep them in check.

We should look to DF for inspiration: Build a very tall tower with a trapdoor, and lots of butchers and tanners clustered around below. Deer tallow biscuits for everyone!

I'll have a deer meat roast. I get fancy with my venison.

Prepared deer brain.

[GiglameshDespair]

The conservative estimates are that there are 1.5 million deer in Britain, and something like half to 60% should be shot each year. It's a little out of hand. The problem is they look at population numbers in a certain area and see it's stable, and think, 'ah, it's fine then'. But all the excess deer being created are just going into surrounding areas and eating the shit out of everything.

Oh dear god BBC news article comments. Ranging from 'cull EU immigrants as well!' to 'Cull humans instead, we do the most damage!' to 'Everyone who wants to hunt the deer are emotionally stunted psychos who just want to murder defenceless animals!'

Welp. Someone literally suggested that scientists are satanic because they want to use climate change to... kill deer for the evulz? What?

A lot of people suggest re-introducing wolves and bears. No thanks. I'd prefer to be able to go camping without the risk of waking up to being eaten by a grizzly.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

The conservative estimates are that there are 1.5 million deer in Britain, and something like half to 60% should be shot each year. It's a little out of hand. The problem is they look at population numbers in a certain area and see it's stable, and think, 'ah, it's fine then'. But all the excess deer being created are just going into surrounding areas and eating the shit out of everything.

Oh dear god BBC news article comments. Ranging from 'cull EU immigrants as well!' to 'Cull humans instead, we do the most damage!' to 'Everyone who wants to hunt the deer are emotionally stunted psychos who just want to murder defenceless animals!'

Welp. Someone literally suggested that scientists are satanic because they want to use climate change to... kill deer for the evulz? What?

A lot of people suggest re-introducing wolves and bears. No thanks. I'd prefer to be able to go camping without the risk of waking up to being eaten by a grizzly.

Unfortunately, nature tends to not care what people do or don't like on their outdoor trips. The solution isn't a complete dismantling of an ecosystem. Also, if you [still] had bears and wolves in the areas there wouldn't be an overpopulation of deer... Just saying. Also bears are very unlikely to attack people. Moose are more dangerous than bears at most times of year.

[Knit tie]

The conservative estimates are that there are 1.5 million deer in Britain, and something like half to 60% should be shot each year. It's a little out of hand. The problem is they look at population numbers in a certain area and see it's stable, and think, 'ah, it's fine then'. But all the excess deer being created are just going into surrounding areas and eating the shit out of everything.

Oh dear god BBC news article comments. Ranging from 'cull EU immigrants as well!' to 'Cull humans instead, we do the most damage!' to 'Everyone who wants to hunt the deer are emotionally stunted psychos who just want to murder defenceless animals!'

Welp. Someone literally suggested that scientists are satanic because they want to use climate change to... kill deer for the evulz? What?

A lot of people suggest re-introducing wolves and bears. No thanks. I'd prefer to be able to go camping without the risk of waking up to being eaten by a grizzly.

Unfortunately, nature tends to not care what people do or don't like on their outdoor trips. The solution isn't a complete dismantling of an ecosystem. Also, if you [still] had bears and wolves in the areas there wouldn't be an overpopulation of deer... Just saying. Also bears are very unlikely to attack people. Moose are more dangerous than bears at most times of year.

Reintroduction of deer predators, such as wolves, is the most sensible option, so far. Contrary to what my iceaxing story might've insinuated, wolves almost never attack people, same for bears. And they keep the deer population in check with no outside help.

Also, the comments are eerily similar to what we get in Russia. I guess rabid animal rights activists are worldwide.

[RedKing]

Best solution is to bioengineer a hyperpredator, then you only need to release a handful to keep the deer population in check.

Science: We're Helping! 

[TD1]

Deer Vs. Predators? 0_o

And I'm all for reintroduction of wolves and such. As far as I know, wolves are probably less likely to kill you than a car.

[MonkeyHead]

Best solution is to bioengineer a hyperpredator, then you only need to release a handful to keep the deer population in check.

Science: We're Helping! 

What, give a man a gun and tell him to go nuts, you mean?

Where I grew up in South Wales had a serious deer problem - a few hundred years ago a local lord let a bunch roam free on his estate. Nowadays they are fucking everywhere in spring and summer - local schoolkids are roped in to tag newborns in order to work out how many need shooting to stop some kind of Bambi related apocalypse.

[Loud Whispers]

Contrary to what my iceaxing story might've insinuated, wolves almost never attack people, same for bears. And they keep the deer population in check with no outside help.

Wolves killed so many people in Britain that for 900 years straight every single monarch had always issued some sort of decree rewarding or ordering the destruction of wolves, as well as other things such as building stone hovels along all the roads to try and minimize the amount of travelers being eaten by wolves.
Fuck them, just get more guns.

[TD1]

More guns? Yep, that's the solution. Make those who want guns be able to get them easier. I prefer a biological response to a biological problem. Wolves nowadays have been so persecuted by humans they stay away. Populations change attitudes over ages, even wolves.

[Loud Whispers]

More guns? Yep, that's the solution. Make those who want guns be able to get them easier. I prefer a biological response to a biological problem. Wolves nowadays have been so persecuted by humans they stay away. Populations change attitudes over ages, even wolves.

Unless you mean biological weapons, as the Australians did with their rabit problem, no. We don't create beings that can turn on us.
I repeat, bioweapons [good], wolves [bad]. Do you know what has kept wolves away from Britain better than constant fear? Do you know how many wolf attacks there are now? Nought, because they're extinct.
In any case, humans with guns are a biological enough solution, deer is tasty. Coincidentally, humans are tasty to wolves too.

[scrdest]

I prefer a biological response to a biological problem.

OK, engineering a supervirus.

[MaximumZero]

I just want to eat the deer, guys.

[TD1]

Do you know how many wolf attacks there were in North America in the last fifty years or so?

Nought. Zero. And they are not extinct.

[RedKing]

Do you know how many wolf attacks there were in North America in the last fifty years or so?

Nought. Zero. And they are not extinct.

Not exactly.