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School: Hampshire High School/ Class:
4th block enviromental science
Teacher: Mr. Moore
POV Group Name:
The Forest Saver,
1 person
Date: 11/08/2006/ Time: 01:35 PM
I think
we should make our own trees in a special place and by
the time they get old enough we replant them in the
wild. To keep the deer from eating them we should make
some kind of spray substance to spray on the tree to
keep deer away from it. We should have a certain area
for just deer to graze and eat what they can. There are
60 deer per sq. mile and that many deer could cause a
lot of damage to our forest. All the native young
sprouting trees that are just freshly being born in the
ground are being eaten right away do to the fact of over
population of deer. Since the deer mostly like to eat
small spouting trees than I think you should stick with
my idea of growing new trees inside buildings till they
get old enough that they can go into the forest and than
when we get enough in there we can still have our
regular population of trees again. We also need those
trees for lumber. We are losing a lot of money on the
lack of lumber surplus and need to do something about
it. I thought of a good idea that might help the lumber
company in a good way. Deer tend to eat small trees
because the freshness it contains. Before you grow the
tree, put some kind of chemical inside the seed to warn
most of the deer to where it doesn't kill all the trees.
Make sure that the chemical isn’t harmful to the tree or
human kind. I think it might cost around a couple
million dollars but with the saving of the trees we
could save around a couple billion dollars. The stuff to
spray in the trees or in the seeds may cost a bit of
money. The fence idea is a good idea but say some how
the a tree falls down on the fence and deer notice
there’s an opening in the fence and they will come in
graze on all the trees and sprouting bushes. What will
you do than when most of your trees and bushes are gone
and how much money it will take to get back to what you
started with. There’s another idea that I have that
would work but at the same time make people scared to go
into the woods do to the fact that I would like some
kind of animal like a wolf or a mountain lion. They
would take care of the population of the deer that eat
all the trees and shrubs. I like 2nd blocks idea of
having deer season all year long to because than more
people could get out in the summer when there’s no work
and kill the deer and plant more plants.
Thoughtful
Questions
From:
Homeowners/ Class_Name: Environmental
Science 2nd Block/ ¶Teacher: Mr. Moore/
School: Hampshire High/ Date:
Monday,
November 13, 2006/ Time: 10:04 AM
Well if
you hunted all the time including the summer and the
winter then wouldnt that leave no deer for actual
hunting season and if you took that season away, there
still wouldnt be very many deer if any left at all. So
why would you hunt during both summer and winter why not
just one month of a year.
From:
Team Happy Wolf!/
Class_Name: Env.Sci./ ¶Teacher:
Laura O'Leary/
School: North
Harford/ Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006/
Time: 12:46 PM
Have you managed to find a company that produces
anti-deer spray? Or were you planning on developing it
in the near future? We were also unaware that seeds to
warn the deer were available. Is it true that the reason
deer eat younger trees is because of the "included
freshness"-- or is it because understory trees are more
easily reached than more mature trees? Deer feed on
vegetation, regardless of age. Also-- hopefully, the
hunters would not be afraid to enter the woods if we
were to reintroduce muontain lions and wolves. If the
hunters are scared of game animals, that's a deficiency
in the hunters. Fear defeats the purpose-- the entire
sport of hunting is built upon killing "terrifying"
animals!
From:
Homeowners/7/ Class_Name: Environmental
Science Block 2/ ¶Teacher: Mr. Moore/
School: Hampshire High/ Date:
Wednesday,
November 15, 2006/ Time: 10:26 AM
As to
your thoughtful question what you stated is not exactly
what we meant. What we meant was that you would have
longer hunting seasons or more hunting seasons. But you
would have to have sometime in-between the longer
seasons and or the multiple seasons, otherwise there
would be no deer population.
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School: NHHS/ Class: Environmental II
Teacher: Mrs. Laura O'leary
POV Group Name:
Foresters
Date: 11/10/2006/ Time: 11:32 AM
Being
the foresters we are greatly concerned about the deer
population. With the ever growing population of deer it
puts a huge impact on the under story of the Forest and
herbaceous vegetation. With this overabundance of deer
the forest will Suffer and we can not have that happen
because forests are very precious to us. There are
several things that can be done to prevent the threat to
the forest under story. We can encase saplings in
PVC-like pipes. One thing that can be done is to allow
the deer hunting season to be longer. It should be year
round and hunters may kill a certain number of deer a
year. Also, we could build fences to keep the deer out
and allow the forest to re-grow their under story and
fix themselves. By having these fences up it provides
time for the vegetation and under story to grow back.
Within a year new vegetation can grow back and be almost
back to normal because the understory trees provide
future trees. If we start to take out some of the deer
then the biodiversity will balance out. As a forester
the vegetation and under story is very important to us
and we need to take every precaution possible to help
prevent this from happening. This is a very big problem
and if we don’t do anything about this soon our forest
will be ruined and the deer will takeover and other
animals won’t have anyplace to live. We must stop this
now!
Thoughtful
Questions
From:
Foresters/
Class_Name: Env. 2/ ¶Teacher:
Oleary/ School: NHHS/
Date: Tuesday,
November 14, 2006/ Time: 12:48 PM
Where would you get the money to make these deer fences
and deer farms??
From:
Insurance Company/
Class_Name: Vo ag. 1/ ¶Teacher:
Mr. Halterman/ School: East Hardy
High School/ Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006/
Time: 01:43 PM
You make some pretty obvious points, but have you ever
heard of carrying capacity? See, it is scientifically
impossible for deer to rule an area of which other
living organisms are limited. Now, if a population
overrides its carrying capacity then, if we as a higher
species chose not to control it, nature itself through
disease, weather, and food shortages, etc. will kill of
the deer. Once the carrying capacity is higher than it
should be then once the deer die off the capacity will
lower. Therefor, it is impossible for the deer(or any)
population to exceed what it's set limit is. Perhaps
next time you should look more into what you are typing,
words don't mean anything unless you can back them up
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