Pennsylvania

There may be plenty of compound reasons for this. I’m not really interested in learning Pitt’s argument because it’s an argument made all over the country. Unfortunately, it often becomes political when usually it’s highly scientific. Historically, we’ve culled the populations large predators like wolves and bears (except bears tend to he highly opportunistic rather than overt predators). Read A Sand County Almanac or Never Cry Wolf. The result is significant overpopulation and proliferation of disease (I.e. Chronic Wasting Disease) in prey species. I suspect the hunting, likely suggested by the state department of ecology who has been studying the problem for years, is because the local deer population is growing out of control with no mitigating megafauna.

We are the megafauna because we drove-off or hunted all the native varieties. So, venison anyone?