Hovercraft Deer Rescue

B00Mer

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Hovercraft Deer Rescue

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnceHH_p_I

James saw a Facebook post about some deer stuck out on the ice in the middle of Albert Lea Lake, so he called up his dad and they broke out the hovercraft. It's a father son rescue mission unlike anything you've ever seen.
 

CutDiamond

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Hovercraft Deer Rescue

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnceHH_p_I

James saw a Facebook post about some deer stuck out on the ice in the middle of Albert Lea Lake, so he called up his dad and they broke out the hovercraft. It's a father son rescue mission unlike anything you've ever seen.
So many hunters out there killing and maiming wildlife it is heartening that some do care.
 

Curious Cdn

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Unfortunately, we have almost completely stopped hunting deer and they have become seriously overpopulated. They don't as have many natural predators left and by the way, human beings ARE a 100% natural predator of deer. We have been hunting them from the very beginning and it's not too much of a stretch to say that we evolved together. Humans have been hunting deer in the Americas for between 20,000 -30,000 years (how long have people been here? The jury is still out). Our species has hunted them continuously... pretty much lived off of them for something like 50,000 years in Eurasia and we have been going after their African kin for over 100,000 years. Deer and Humans are as linked together as Lynx and Snowshoe Hares.

Too much Bambi ... waaaay too much Bambi and, BTW, the deer are actually suffering from the lack of predation. A Mohawk friend who studies such things has noticed that the (seriously overpopulated) deer on an island in the Niagara River are actually mutating a bit because of the lack of predators presumably controlling some of the genetics. If you want to save the deer, don't stop hunting deer. Bring back cougars, bears and wolves and keep hunting deer as we always have, as long as we have been human.
 

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The citified yuppies love them. At least until the precious rose buses get eaten. Fools in Victoria wanted to "relocate" a bunch to some other part of our island that is already overpopulated.
 

talloola

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we live on the west side of courtenay, and not very fAr from us is the wilderness, where cougArs and
wolves reside along with the deer, so it seems from all of our walks thru that wilderness that the
deer are well hunted by predators, because we hardly ever see one. exception are the ones we see
within city limits of courtenay and comox, but it seems they are culled out from time to time, becAuse
this spring there aren't many at all.
 

Curious Cdn

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we live on the west side of courtenay, and not very fAr from us is the wilderness, where cougArs and
wolves reside along with the deer, so it seems from all of our walks thru that wilderness that the
deer are well hunted by predators, because we hardly ever see one. exception are the ones we see
within city limits of courtenay and comox, but it seems they are culled out from time to time, becAuse
this spring there aren't many at all.
They are plenty in the East of the country. The south of Ontario and Quebec are crawling with deer. Two generations ago, they were regularly hunted. It has gone right out of fashion to do so and nothing hunts them in those places, anymore (The bears, Cougars have been gone for two centuries).
 
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talloola

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They are plenty in the East of the country. The south of Ontario and Quebec are crawling with deer. Two generations ago, they were regularly hunted. It has gone right out of fashion to do so and nothing hunts them in those places, anymore (The bears, Cougars have been gone for two centuries).

its too bad the bears and cougars and wolves left, good management would have kept them around, given
them space to live, we have them here in bc. they're doing just fine.

ontario is a huge province, lots of room for everyone, introduce the predators back into the areas
where they are needed.
 

Curious Cdn

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its too bad the bears and cougars and wolves left, good management would have kept them around, given
them space to live, we have them here in bc. they're doing just fine.

ontario is a huge province, lots of room for everyone, introduce the predators back into the areas
where they are needed.
They were hunted out ... partly by my own ancestors way back in the 1700s. Those early pioneers were just trying to survive and high level predators were most certainly a direct threat to their survival. I can guarantee that very few of them had WWF Panda stickers on the backs of their ox carts.


BTW Bears are still plentiful in Ontario well away from the urban and rural areas. Cougars are exceedingly rare.