Wesselman’s Park Deer “Hunt”?

I'm on the West Side of Evansville and when I grew up and went out into the woods out there near USI and my parent's house we never saw any deer either.  Now we see deer out in our back yard almost every night. One got hit by a car out in the front yard and was found by a neighbor in our ditch.  The number of deer has multiplied down here in Southern IN.  We never saw wild turkeys in the past 50 years but now we have them strutting out in the back yard where we use to have a garden.  We put a lot of phosphate rock on the ground in the past 50 years and the glass where the garden used to be is greener than the rest of the yard. Guess what grass the deer and turkey like to play on.  

The Current or maybe past director of IDNR F&W is retiring this month.  I hope to go shooting with him in the near future if things work out right.  I might ask him about these deer culling efforts in the parks.  

I've seen the damage that wild deer can do at Harmony Park in the past.  The browse line was clearly visible. I took a couple of classes in wildlife biology just for kicks and giggles as I had some electives that I needed to take.  One thing the professor talked about in the lectures was an overpopulation of game species.  And the browsing damage at Harmony State Park is a classic example of what happens to the shrubs and trees when there are too many deer.  The carrying capacity of that Park was clearly overrun by too many deer. 


Wesselman Park is an older growth forest and there should be plenty of trees to put a deer stand on.  Shooting down is common practices and they can or may use bow and arrows to help thin the heard if rifles prove to be too controversial.  

I'd like to take those anti-gun people back in time to Harmony Park and show the damage that the deer did when they were overpopulating the park before they go culled by hunters. But I"ve found that there are some anti-gun women that won't listen to reason.  I prefer women who like to hunt animals like me.