It was impossible to garden until we put up a skookum fence, and with only a few occasional predators (gulf islands) the deer are shrinking in size yet browse in greater numbers. The forests are out of balance because they are overbrowsed.

Not much hunting locally due to restrictions, I think it was only shotgun slug and bow a few years back, and there's not much crown land around, so we have a bad deer problem.

We pulled one part of the ecology out, predation, and people object to replacing it or any fix. It’s going to make wildfires worse and reduces biodiversity.