<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Craig Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craigw84@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">craigw84@fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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But that is different from an area is managed primarily to benefit hunting. eg if they are keeping deer numbers artificially high (feeding over winter, or breeding), just to allow as many as possible to be shot. Despite the damage this causes to vegetation and other wildlife.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nobody around here raises deer. We get far more deer than the ecosystem will support as it is - they show up everywhere as nuisance wildlife. Game farms such as you describe may exist, but none of the hunting reserves that I personally have tagged are among them. The closest thing to that model that I have tagged is that the state operates fish hatcheries and a pheasant breeding farm for the purpose of restocking over-harvested species. (The current model that the state has for the pheasant is that they will release captive-bred pheasant into the wildlife management areas, to protect more vulnerable and less tasty species such as grouse.)</div><div><br></div><div>My apologies if I'm duplicating messages here. I'm having a problem with some intermediate agent in the mail chain rewriting my 'from' address so that I'm getting messages held for moderator approval. I'm also having problems with the touchpad on my laptop sometimes going crazy and spontaneously registering taps and I think that at least one half-composed message may have inadvertently been sent.</div></div><br></div></div>