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FarmerExternal t1_iynvdh6 wrote

Reply to comment by BakeBeginning7863 in High amounts of deer on trails? by BakeBeginning7863

Have you noticed there's a lot more car accidents this time of year? It's typically not car on car, it's someone hitting a dear on the highway. The population of deer is dangerous to humans, and unchecked will very soon become dangerous to the deer themselves because over overcrowding. Food is not the only concern here, in overcrowded animal populations there's a much higher chance of them catching and spreading disease amongst the community

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Lenchantin1 t1_iynjcrq wrote

Reply to comment by PoisonMind in High amounts of deer on trails? by BakeBeginning7863

That's exactly right. In addition to this, the deer population continues to rise and their isn't enough habitat to support them. Consequently, many of them will starve and become susceptible to a disease that easily spreads within the herd. It's all kind of bad news when deer overpopulate an area. Much of it also has to do with development encroaching on their habitat. Hunting is essential to keeping the herd numbers in check. In areas where the people have voted down such opportunities for bow hunters, snipers are hired to shoot them at night in local parks. They are expensive and paid by our tax dollars.

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Vivid_Opportunity_98 OP t1_iyn4nwb wrote

Reply to does anyone remember the name of the huge school for the troubled/asylum that got shut down near elkridge and ellicott city i believe it shutdown in 2016 from abuse aligations by Vivid_Opportunity_98

i had family that help build parts of it and they all remembered it as a huge compound with a large two or three story school style building and a couple tall 6+ story apartment/office style buildings im looking into doing urbex there due to the shear size and low knowledge of it

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PoisonMind t1_iymldcg wrote

Reply to comment by BakeBeginning7863 in High amounts of deer on trails? by BakeBeginning7863

I don't think hunting is nearly popular enough to replace the lack of natural predators, but every bit helps.

The problem with deer overpopulation is that it prevents forest regeneration, which leads you get soil erosion, which allows for more runoff, which leads to polluted water, and it also helps invasive species proliferate (because deer don't eat those). It's all sorts of bad news for the local ecology.

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PoisonMind t1_iymjmih wrote

Reply to High amounts of deer on trails? by BakeBeginning7863

We extirpated the wolves and the mountain lions, and have nearly extirpated coyotes, which were their only natural predators, so their population exploded, and they lost their fear of predators.

Suburban environments are also ideal environments for fringe grazers like deer. (Deer don't actually prefer deep forest.)

This is why I support deer hunting. It's the next best option to reintroducing wolves.

To see what happens when you do reintroduce predators, look at what happened when they reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone and otters to the Pacific Northwest.

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freecain t1_iymfe4x wrote

Reply to Who would I contact to get maintenance done on my street? by iphone69plus

HOA is responsible for parking space lines. You might have to go through your landlord for this. Most likely, as a renter, you don't have any standing in the HOA, but some bylaws may allow you to attend meetings and give input.

Community mailbox is going to be owned by the USPS. When I rented an apartment and had mailbox issues, they couldn't do anything about it and could only call the post office. They encouraged me to do the same thing, and eventually (I think a few months) someone fixed the issue. Granted - for ours it was that the lock was broken, cosmetic issues probably won't be addressed. However, to make things more complicated- the peeling paint issue probably goes back to the HOA, depending on who set up the mailbox and how it was built.

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