instead of Uggs, mukluk boots

[shootingstar]

Oak --you forgot the bears in North America --deer predators. There's enough of them in various parts of North America.

It's great a lot more people are vegetarians --meaning for years. That's real commitment which like cycling ...just becomes part of daily life.
I've scaled down a lot from having meat nearly every dinner to several times a month ...now like this for past 15 years or so. It was more just eating less meat for health reasons and just saving costs.

[OakLeaf]

When someone sights ONE black bear in most of the USA, it's a major event. Something like 120,000 white-tailed deer are harvested each year in each STATE. I'd be surprised if black bears hunt deer - are you sure of that? They're not much bigger than deer ...

Grizzlies, like wolves and large cats, not only are rare in modern times, but inhabit only a very small range.

[Irulan]

Some people hunt every season - upland game, duck, deer, elk, moose - each has its own season. For the hunters I know, and I know a lot of them, it's an ongoing activity, not something reserved for those two weeks out of the year that the not-real hunters go apesh*t about hunting.

In the west at least, bears are not a significant predator of deer, although they are known to take fawns.Cougars, coyotes and wolves are the main predators. I understand this may be different in the central/north central N America, as compared to the western states/provinces.

And no, I"m not a hunter. Many of my clients and people in my social circle and larger community are.