What's causing the explosions?
Must ruin a lot of meat?

just saw an item on our evening TV news about deer populations exploding in the South Island High Country . As a result of two years of virtually no helicopter deer recovery the deer numbers have grown to the point were deer are now reappearing above the bushline and posing a threat to the Alpine Herb species found up there .
The "experts" are calling for the use of 1080 poison drops to control the deer numbers - the deerhunters , obviously , hold the opposing view .

I suspect that a) deer numbers have increased , but not exploded and b) the deer now realise that they can venture out above the scrubline without getting the shit shot out of them all day long , so they are now more visible .

This situation has to be a bonus for hunters prepared to hunt in alpine conditions , and the helicopter operators are cashing in by airlifting hunting parties into the appropriate areas instead of hunting deer and flying out the bodies .

The fact that venison prices have crashed and international venison markets were getting pretty windy about 1080 residues in wild deer has played a major role in the reduction in aerial hunting in recent times.

Any of the NZ South Island guys have anything to add ?

No homo jokes please FC

Muzza
Do you think I can get a camper van that high up the mountains?

Mate , if you have the money I am sure that someone will have a helicopter with sufficient lift capacity to get you and the van as high as you want .

Should make for an exciting drive down too I expect - best get the missus to do up her seatbelt

Could be anally ingested flatulism mate , maybe the deer have heard about your sexual preferances...

Bakes,

I'll help you push the campervan up there - if there is room for me, of course!!!!

A Huey could probably lift the van and your family , would struggle if you were in it too

Actually we have helos with much greater lift capacity than the HU-1 , use them in the forestry industry for selective logging operations.

Mrs Bakes has my sympathy if she is going to be trapped in a mobile snail with three small boys.....

Ohhh thats not nice

And its not 3 small boys....its 2 small and 1 big one...me

Year saw that too!
That RETIRED botanist wanker that started all that shit about the Deer eating all the Mount Cook Lillies and 1080 is the only way to save them needs his head kicked in.
Yes there are a few animals around at the moment but so what.
Will know for myself when we fly into Fiordland on the 16 April.

Milosmate

Yeah , if I recall correctly he did have a history of tree hugging and anti introduced game animal mentality .
I dont believe the animals are in vast numbers , they just havent been harrassed from the air for a while and are returning to their old areas in daytime - hence more visible .
we can only hope that the anti deer brigade dont manage to make any sort of political headway out of this .

If you need help pushing the camp ervan up there, I'll be right behind you... er... let me rephrase that... I will help push the campervan up that far - you get there under your own steam, and preferably walking upright

There it is again , Aussies reverting back to their preferred sexual activity!

Try and have a sensible,intelligent, thread and what happens?

Will Bakes knuckles still drag on the ground if he walks upright?

Just trying to protect the alpine flora , mate . Its the drag marks from the knuckles , disturbs the root structure of the alpine daisy and the prostrate hebes etc . Cant have foreigners in our pristine alpine areas desecrating the wilderness...

I've had the prostrate checked mate no "hebes" up there!

Jeeze,I hope it happens in south Queensland over the next few days. I,m packing up to drive down for a weeks Red Deer hunting at the moment. Wish me luck.

What , youre going to South Queersland to have your prostate checked.......?