Article: QLD: Deer hunting an untapped resource says academic


AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2000
QLD: Deer hunting an untapped resource says academic

By Gil Breitkreutz

BRISBANE, April 27 AAP - Deer hunting in southeast Queensland was a largely untapped
resource despite adding at least $1 million a year to the state's economy, a university
researcher said today.

Up to 20,000 red deer run free over 750,000 hectares of rural land from the Mary Valley
to the southern Darling Downs where properties suffer widespread damage to fences and
crops.

Gordon Dryden, a senior lecturer in animal nutrition, said calls by farmers for organised
culling would waste a valuable resource.

The deer are descendants of six fawns from England's Great Windsor Park ...

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