Re: The CONservation organised culls.

From: John Cartmell (john_at_cartmell.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:14:47 +0100

In article <5mm7m0dna90dgavpu3ad5kaavgatnnlarg@4ax.com>, J Smytje
<JSmythe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I was told that culls of fallow deer were carried out on two or three
> days each year because the population in the area is so high that they
> killed off the young trees in new plantations. Bourne Woods, like many
> others in Britain, have survived for thousands of years without culling
> so why start now?

Because we've killed off the natural predators and introduced even more
deer into inappropriate areas. There is an answer; it's the w word. 

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