too much local vegetation. right now, deer are eating all of the tree seedlings that grow and if new plants and trees can t grow, the forest can t regenerate. and the naeshs support the program. but others want nonlethal means to prevent the deer from continuing to reprous. there is other options. they are just trying to get the easy way of getting out. you are not wounding them with a bow and arrow and not wounding them by untrained shotters and they do have to be cleared out. it is not just here, department of agriculture sharp shotters are controlling the deer population in other parks and cities. here locally deer meat that comes from the shooting will be begin to food banks and homeless
open to local hunters. instead the national park service is bringing out the big guns and sharp shooters hired to call in the deer population that has gone buck wild. molly is live from rock croak, in washington d.c. molly. reporter: yes, greg, rock creek, the park behind me is a 12 mile park in washington d.c., as you are saying sharp shooters will be working in the over night hours until the end of march or until they call the herd around the nation s capitol. it is a second year to stem the deer heard. they want 77 deer to around 15 or 20 deer per square mile. the over population is causing the deer to venture in neighborhoods and rush hour traffic looking for food. they say the deer is depleting
the making of this cover. it is about the study enkurgs growth of wild life in america and the animals are coming too close. you probably heard bits and pieces of this story. ferrell pigs in texas. deer in the mid-west, turkey, a fox that has been cited on the white house grounds. the animals are coming very close, coyotes in new york and a lot of the reason for that is actually that we did some things right in the latter half of the 20th century t. white tailed deer, for example, on the cover was near extinction in the 1930s, partly because of the film bambi and the book, people got tuned into the idea this population was in trouble. they started taking measures to bring it being. now the deer population is 30 million and growing. it s more than when columbus got to america. there are reasons related to these animals. a lot of communities are stepping up hunting.
there you have it. go out and get some j brand photo shopped jeans. i don t think i would looking so good in those. kind of tight. this is a great idea for towns that have too many deer, animals in them. we both have places in new jersey. it is dangerous. really its dangerous. everywhere. car accidents. the town of hastings on the hudson has 70 to 120 deer in a two-mile area. wow. so they re coming up with an interesting plan. instead of a controlled hunt to clear out the deer population, they re going to use birth control. they re working with tufts university. they re using it now. fairly successfully. 50 residents volunteered to help. putting deer on birth control. hopefully this will stop the population without having to kill the deer. there s 16 car collisions every year or in 2011 involving deer in this town. so it s a real problem. you know what, the two of us live in towns where we experienced that situation. there is the sound. i never hit a deer. me either
bob: fascist you. greg: of course i am. monica: the police say it interferes with law enforcement. because they are there trying to catch speeders and other law-breakers but who among us have not done it or benefited from it. greg: i don t have a car and i walk up and do it. eric: i live in jersey. there is a huge deer population between here and there. at night, dusk especially. if there is deer in the road i swear to god on my life there is a lot of deer. there are. you have no idea how many people are hurt and injured and killed because of the deer. to make a long story short, if you drive on a highway and there are deer and you see them you let people in oncoming traffic know. now people are getting pulled over it. i can t stand speeders more than that. greg: unless you see an obama sticker then you don t flash, right, eric? kimberly: gang members flashlights. whatever. it s complicated. i don t approve of the ground saying that it violates their first amendment right