The bamby effect, a reluctance to kill deer based on the dignified notion that they are lovely and gentle. An economist at the university of wisconsin madison has been studying wolves with jenifer rayner. One avenue for wolves to really have a positive economic impact on local communities is through their control of deer. Deer continue to multiply, especially in the suburbs, where they impose a variety of costs. They eat the shrubbery, they spread diseas sand,. Most serious of all, they wander on to roadways and collide with cars and trucks, motor cycles and bicycles.
Every year, there are more than a million collisions in the U.S. between drivers and deer. The result: hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, and billions in damages. Enter the wolf …