Sentences with phrase «as the deer populations»

Nationwide, the same tale has been repeated again and again: As deer populations have exploded over the past 40 years, Kentucky warbler populations have declined by 1 percent per year.

As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.

Not exact matches

Task force members expressed a strong preference for humane, non-lethal methods to depress the deer population, such as surgical sterilization, which the group said would cost $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 per deer.

Task force members expressed a strong preference for humane, non-lethal methods to depress the deer population, such as surgical sterilization, which the group said costs $ 1,000 to $ 1,500 per deer.

But in a year when the state's top two legislators were arrested, and as New York remains one of the nation's highest - taxed places, many voters on Syracuse's east side want leaders to address the growing population of deer.

STATEN ISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten Island.

«There's no denying the spike in our deer population, just as there's no denying the spike in concerns around Lyme Disease,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

Efforts to accurately assess deer populations in Mamaroneck will move forward, as a hired consultant gears up to survey the village using a drone.

The rebound of white - tailed deer populations — over 20 million roam the U.S. today — is viewed as one of the nation's greatest conservation success stories.

Warmer winters, wetter and earlier springs (which expand the time during which ticks can pick up the disease), increased humidity, and greener environments can all contribute to the increased incidence of ticks and the growing populations of hosts, including large mammals like white - tailed deer; smaller ones such as white - footed mice, the principal carrier of Lyme disease; and many species of birds.

Those results could provide better understanding of how those deer are related to those in the Inner Hebrides, as well as deliver more information about how deer populations on the islands have fluctuated in the past few millennia.

«Current deer population densities in central Appalachia jeopardize the future of ginseng, as well as the culture of harvest and trade surrounding this important herb,» McGraw and Furedi conclude in their report, published today in Science.

But by the 1990s, white - tailed deer populations in parks had swelled to such size that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies largely disappeared, replaced by wild ginger and exotic species such as garlic mustard and Japanese stiltgrass, plants not favored by deer.

The 4 - Poster device, a type of deer bait station that controls ticks as they feed, does dramatically reduce tick populations over a two to three year period.

Besides possibly leading to a substantial decline in scavengers that may depend on puma leftovers, one of the largest effects of losing pumas would likely be boom - and - bust population cycles in prey animals such as deer.

No state has as many different species of mammals as Montana has the states elk, deer, and antelope populations outnumber it's human population.

Other cats such as the Puma, Ocelot, Jaguarundi and Margay, as well as Peccary, Paca, Brocket Deer, Tayra, Otter and Coatimundi, enjoy a population density difficult to achieve in most locations.

Likewise, research on San Miguel Island showed that as seed predators, deer mice had limited impacts on giant coreopsis populations, especially when compared to the negative competitive effects of non-native annual grasses.

Join an open - top Jeep safari for the chance to spot crocodiles, leopards, jackals, sambar deer and some 300 species of bird — as well as the growing population of tigers known to roam the national park.

re Dan H. 541 — that's what I meant by human population dynamics being «fortunately complex» — that it helps to control our population growth by being nice to each other (in specific ways), as opposed to how we would control deer or lady bugs (or aphids) or gypsy moths, etc. (would that change if deer reached a stage part - way between subsistence and affluence?