Thread: Northland deer (again)

I’m the first to say deer in Northland would be awesome, fallow would do great up here in all the broken bush and farm land, it’s not like much of the bush is native any more with all the invasive plants and constant pine tree planting.

But the sika cull is to my understanding not really going to affect many of us, I know allot of people and hunters up here and have never seen or met someone that has seen one of these deer dead or alive. My understanding is they mostly are in the private land to the NE and that is why doc have not been able to cull them out, rumour was they were shot on the bush edges by a couple of farmers out that way that sort of kept them safe. But I suspect they have sold the land or gotten older and handed it down and the younger generations are not interested in keeping them around and doc is getting in while they can.

It isn’t uncommon to see up to 5 feral cats driving up this way at night and I can’t count the amount of times I have had to stop due to pigs on the road so it does seam off they are spending this much money on a few deer that really cannot spread far due to open farm land or the ocean.