Good to know that the PA game commission has their priorities straight. PA has a tremendous deer overpopulation problem. You'd think they wouldn't want to discourage hunting with all sorts of ambiguous legal gotchas.
We need to be encouraging people to help knock down the deer population not trapping people who are using tools to recover bodies, that will otherwise rot, into crimes/fines on weird technicalities.
I want to slowly convert my lawn to produce vegetables and fruit, but what's the point? The deer will eat the whole plant unless its very toxic to them.
They have no fear of man, like wild deer would. On account of their unnaturally high density [1] they carry nasty diseases for us, other animals and themselves.
Heck, Ive seen dead deer on the part of the interstate that cuts through the city.
[1] suburban deer have no predators (except cars), unnaturally vast lawns to graze on and idiots feeding them (why??)
Sometimes during dead-deer season I wish it was possible to hold my breath on my entire commute because it's just smelly rotting flesh after smelly rotting flesh.
They were reintroduced here in the early 1900s. Turns out, reindeer are ALSO an invasive reintroduced scourge too.
Deer meat tastes good... At least that's their saving grace.
I say we eat them out of the area. They have no current predators, and humans likely won't want bears and wildcats (mountain lions out)to be reintroduced.