Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:26:03 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Honeycutt Subject: Whitetail Deer- more than you want to know. I have been reading some posts reguarding deer in Chatham County and have been impressed by the general misconceptions many have about deer. If someone has read all of theContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:11:32 -0500 From: Laura Young Subject: deer debate What do you make of this? Someone put a deer stand on my property and a fancy camera and feeding station without asking permission. It was very near (100 yards or so) my neighbor and my pondContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 06:27:40 -0800 (PST) From: Chuck Subject: Re: Deer With all this talk of harvesting deer, I find myself wondering exactly how would one approach such an endeavor? I have deer in my yard nearly every day. My subdivision does not permit discharging of guns, andContinue Reading
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:14:11 -0500 From: John Dykers, MD Subject: urban distancing from food production Your excellent description correspond to my representation of modern civilization as shaped like an umbrella mushroom, with very few of us still living at the small root connecting us to the earth. MoreContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:22:44 -0500 From: “Pamela Costenbader” <beadyiwoman@aol.com> Subject: deer As an organic farmer in the area I would like to add my two cents to the deer population debate. Chatham County has a huge deer population, they are part of our environment and I too loveContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:30:02 EST From: Bprentice2 Subject: Re: Eat more deer Doug – This is the most sensible piece of advice anyone has given on the Chatlist in months… on any topic. It absolutely drives me crazy when people are raising free-range chickens and trying to growContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:42:28 -0800 (PST) From: Amy W. Osborne Subject: tick born diseases Dr Dykers – i have read that the blood donation system does not screen for many of these, there are many more than the 3 you mentioned (I can name babesia bartonella and thereContinue Reading
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:06:33 -0500 From: Simon Lobdell Subject: Re: Deer in Chatham. I am sure a wildlife biologist could clear this up better than me but here is my understanding of deer life cycles. 1) Deer operate on a harum structure whereby a single dominant alpha maleContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:27:48 -0500 From: John Dykers, MD Subject: tick bourn diseases fortunately the 3 main tick bourn diseases, Rocky Mt Spotted Fever, Erhlichosis, and Lyme disease are all susucptible to doxycycline in the early stages, usuallly 100 mg twice a day for 10 days. My premiseContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:19:44 -0500 From: Tom Winecoff Subject: Deer over-population Do we have an overpopulation of deer? Probably. Should we harvest more to control the population? NO! Nature seems to work really well when left alone. Wouldn’t you agree? The reason we have an overpopulation, or soContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:37:04 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Berg Subject: Eat more deer. I’ve been around Chatham long enough to remember when NC Wildlife was live-trapping deer in Butner and releasing them here. Inadvertently, the deer brought the ticks, and the ticks brought the pathogens. This accidental releaseContinue Reading
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:02:09 -0500 From: Sherri Oakley Subject: DEVELOPMENT attracts deer and moves them into the surrounding areas. Exactly! Yes, I should have made the sentence clearer but you are right in that DEVELOPMENT attracts deer and moves them into the surrounding areas. As does are ableContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:15:34 EST From: Bprentice2 Subject: Re: Deer in Chatham County Sherri – I think the line you wrote (below) is backwards, or inside-out, or something. As the surrounding counties develop more, the deer move to where they can find land to roam. Deer don’t reallyContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:29:44 -0500 From: gardener Subject: overpopulation of deer in Chatham county In response to the well-intentioned posting below, I must respectfully disagree. While it is absolutely true that habitat destruction is putting pressure on wildlife, that is not why deer have become such a problem.Continue Reading
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:40:52 -0500 From: Matthew Arnsberger Subject: deer in Chatham Simon, Thanks for your thoughts on tick-borne diseases (TBD’s). I have been treated for TBD’s five times in the last seven years, though we are not always certain that my symptoms were from tick diseases. SometimesContinue Reading
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