TWRA Killed 10 Deer in Chattanooga Last Week

[rsimms]

It's true... an army of green spread out across the Enterprise South Industrial and Nature Park one night last week to take out ten deer.

They were collecting abomasums. Do you know what an abomasum is?

Explainer and more photos here: http://bit.ly/1AjHljM

 

[shovelbill]

That's easy. An abomasum is what you get when you cross a president with a possum.

 

[Mansell82]

I don't know much about what's going on over there, but wasn't that open hunting land before the park and VW was built? Now with no hunting going on the deer are overrunning the area and our tax dollars are paying for night vision and thermal imaging so some agents can have a little fun. Oh and they come up with a scientific reason to justify it. Correct me if I'm wrong

 

[Tsuga]

We have too many deer in the area where I live. It is fine with me if TWRA wishes to kill ten of them to study the contents of their fourth stomach.

 

[rsimms]

Mansell82 - 8/17/2014 5:58 AM

I don't know much about what's going on over there, but wasn't that open hunting land before the park and VW was built? Now with no hunting going on the deer are overrunning the area and our tax dollars are paying for night vision and thermal imaging so some agents can have a little fun. Oh and they come up with a scientific reason to justify it. Correct me if I'm wrong

No sir... prior to the land (app. 7,000 acres) being turned over to Hamilton County for a Nature Park and industrial development, it was owned by the military and completely closed. I mean the "shoot on sight" kind of closed. In the 1960's and early 70's, a huge portion of the TNT that fell on Vietnam came from there. Part of the land is still closed to public access and will probably never be developed due to massive environmental issues left behind from the government's TNT manufacturing operation. After the TNT manufacturing operation ceased, the military allowed limited quota hunts to keep the deer pop. in check... Hamilton County has continued that, but has occasionally taken heat from the anti's for it.

You'll find the "Enterprise South" quota hunt(s) listed in TWRA's WMA hunting guides.

 

[Mansell82]

Yes I know all about its history as an ammunition plant. The quota hunts must be what I'm remembering the fuss being over a few years back.

 

[slick]

I recall many years ago that area was stocked with black tail deer.

 

[churly]

slick - 8/18/2014 1:55 PM

I recall many years ago that area was stocked with black tail deer.

And they did not survive.

 

[Cisco]

My Dad killed a Large 6 point Blacktail out of there years ago, but it wasn't right. He said it acted different when it came by him. That's when we learned they where dying out.