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The
Dancers of Deer Support (TDDS)- Musselman
HS-Rickman
11/3/2011
The amount of deer in our urban area is a great
concern. Because there are so many of
them, it has a great impact on our forests. Although
the deer do impact the forests,
humans also damage the forests along with the deer.
According to a study done in 2005, about
60,000 trees are cut down each year by
humans. That is about the size of Ireland. Now,
comparing this to the impact deer have on
forests, we do more damage than they do. Though deer
do prevent tree seedlings to grow
and eat some farmer's crops, there are simple
solutions to these problems.
Farmers can put up fences around their fields to
protect their crops. They can also have
dogs to fend off any deer that come on the land. If
farmers are still having problems with
the deer, they can start hunting them, if they want
to. This is not a problem because it is
on their land. Plus, they can allow other hunters to
come and hunt the deer.
Also, people can keep planting trees every day,
but we just keep cutting them down to
get supplies and make room for new homes. The
estimated amount of houses built each
year is one to two million. That seems a little
unnecessary. The amount of people on the
planet is increasing, yes, but it is unnecessary to
keep knocking trees down. Soon there will
be no more forests left.
Deer do cause problems with the buffers around
rivers but, we contribute to the
destruction of rivers also. We give off so much
toxic waste to the earth that we poison our
rivers. We should be more conscious of our
environment. The forest is not just ours; it
belongs to all the animals too. If we don't have a
forest anymore, where will the animals
go?
Many people blame the decline of our environment on
animals, like the deer. It is not fully
the animals' fault. We contribute greatly to the
decline of the environment, if not more
than the animals do. We should be more concerned
with what we're doing than what the
animals are doing.
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From:
Musselman Band - Other Stakeholder - MslSt
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11/18/2011
9:58:00 AM
While I do agree with you that we cause many problems
with the rivers and forests, I
disagree in the sense that if we focus only on ourselves
then the deer population will go
unattended and will become the main problem. We as
humans should worry about both
deer and human mistakes that are ruining our
environment. So you can't just blame
humans or just deer it is a problem for all living
creatures and requires attention to all
of them to fix the problem.
