Gas Wells Hold Up Deer During Spring Migration
Phys.org | Oct. 6, 2022
Strangely enough, the article doesn’t specify how large these impossible-to-overcome wells were.
Over the study period, dozens of new wells were drilled for coalbed methane extraction in the middle of an existing mule deer corridor. The long-term movement data allowed for a before-after comparison of the effects of expanding development on mule deer movements.
“The deer movements in response to the gas field were unmistakable,” Aikens says.
And so they call it a field.
As development intensity increased over time, the deer began to “hold up” when they reached the natural gas wells. They paused their spring migration and let the wave of green vegetation pass them by, becoming decoupled from their best food resources at a crucial time of the year.
Well, scratch mule deer from the list of things I’d like to be reincarnated as.
“Hold up” – was that for weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds? I’d like to know what they’re talking about. A cautious animal might pause when coming across something new, just to be sure, and then move on… it’s not a disruption until they are frozen in place over a long period of time…
If you use logic again on one of these feel-good science reports, we’ll stop funding them. Oh, wait a minute…
This study only begs the question, “Why did the mule deer cross the gas well field?”
To bolster the other side…
“Well, well, well,” said the starving mule deer, instead of walking around it.
“Living? Well is the best revenge,” quipped the mule deer philosopher.
What do you expect when you try to make deer line up..single file..holding a knot on a rope..marching across the tundra…trying to keep in step to John Phillip Sousa’s The Invincible Eagle…
Deer who identify as mule deer are offensive to mules don’t cha see because my mule, Hillary, has a hard time seeing the similarity – Festus.