I spent several years hunting whitetail deer in Portage County and am rather sick about the prospects of a goodly amount of potentially affected deer effecting the wild herd from this game ranch.
While I am personally not usually against game ranches (for meat and or breeding purposes), it sounds like this particular guy was looking out for himself only. It also sounds as if the Wisconsin DNR took the appropriate steps to nip this particular issue in the bud from the get-go. Everybody wants to blame the government for everything. I'm surprised that someone has not blamed the current Bush administration for this recent outbreak!
Since deer are creatures of habit and are naturally lazy, (I typically bend the fence wire down near a shooting lane each year during hunting season-with his permission, of course and watch the procession begin of deer walking) it is not uncommon to see many deer discover a new "shortcut" or in this case "breech." in the fence. What is hard to believe is that 40 deer have not been located this time of year- leading me to suspect that some of this herd (probably the larger racked specimens) were moved by the ranch owner.
I'm all for making a profit and our capitalistic free market that is despised throughout the rest of the world and makes us the Great Satan of the universe-just don't mess with my hunting land to make your damn money!
