overpopulation of deer

• Scott Fielding's Longest Day

Although Winnipeg Mayor [Sam Katz] was clearly overjoyed to see the city's long-delayed indoor-soccer complex find a home at the University of Manitoba last week, the mayor's relief was tempered by annoyance at tactics employed by some of the other, unsuccessful bidders. There were many phone calls received by myself. I didn't return any of them (and) I didn't think it was appropriate. I was rather disappointed I would even get a phone call on that issue," Katz said. "I believe there is a process and you follow that process. "There's an impression that crosswalks are safe to cross. Often, that isn't the case," she said. "You have to put people's lives ahead of convenience."

...Canada geese, like white-tailed deer in rural Manitoba and kangaroos in Australia, are ...Overpopulation is overpopulation, whether you're talking about Ca...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 19, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

I am quite concerned about Operation Charging Bison. This appears to present a very serious situation for all of us in a free democracy. At first glance the military objectives seem clear, yet upon closer inspection I become quite confused. So, are we talking about one buffalo, or many buffaloes? The name Bison is very misleading. Perhaps the whole operation should be renamed in order to reflect the oddities of the English language in relation to plurality. How about Operation Charging Moose, or Operation Charging Deer? Hmm, I begin to see the problem in animal nomenclature here -- again these all might cause some concern in regard to singular or plural. OK, I got it. We can rename the mission to Operation Charging Goose, or Geese, I guess, as the case may be. Yeah, Operation Charging G...

... worldwide famine because of overpopulation plus a new Ice Age by 2000 due to global cooling. ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 06, 2009

• Bears, Humans Have Complex, Changing Relationship

He's also fascinated by the ironies of modern environmentalism and eco-tourism: armed guards protecting bear-watchers who have likely grown up with the cuddly Disney image of bears; the town of Churchill going into lockdown to protect its children on Halloween; cottagers putting out bird feeders and then complaining when free food attracts bears. [Jake MacDonald] adds that predatory attacks, usually by black bears, are rare; out of 750,000 black bears in North America, at most two or three will kill a human in a typical year. That makes Ursus Americanus much less of a threat to us than our fellow Homo sapiens. The book comes close to home for Manitoba readers when MacDonald tells the story of the attack on Selkirk man Harvey Robinson, killed by a black bear in 2005 while picking wild pl...

... hunting is needed both to prevent overpopulation and to discourage them from getting close to peopl... is that, "like raccoons, crows, gulls, deer and other opportunistic species, some black bears ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 09, 2009