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# The ‘million dollars new deer & goat scheme’
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-million-dollars-new-deer-goat-scheme/
- Published: 2019-06-03T22:00:09.000Z
- Updated: 2019-06-03T03:50:29.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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Two-man saw in Oregon

Imagine if there were a chainsaw massacre and the government decided to do a chainsaw buy-back because they had passed a law to make chainsaws illegal. All of a sudden our forestry industry would be faced with having to cut down pine trees with axes and with long saws: like those used way back in the times of the gum diggers.

Most people would recognise that it would throw a modern forestry operation into a time warp. It would be like making cars illegal and replacing them with bicycles…oh wait – that is what the Green party is actually trying to do; but I digress.

The gun buy-back is going to result in a pest explosion and fewer people planting seedlings. *Whaleoil* reader Ben explains.

> I was a tree grower, planted over 250,000 trees myself. But **controlling pests is essential.** Putting money into a billion trees planting scheme and a firearm buyback at the same time **guarantees failure of the planting scheme.**   
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> I think of the ‘billion new trees scheme’ as the ‘million new deer scheme’, because this will be the effect of planting tree seedlings on farmland without protection.   
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> Yes, some enthusiasts will still shoot with bolt actions, but **it’s like asking a forestry company to put down their chainsaws and cut trees with axes,** nobody wants to go back to 1940s technology once they’ve used appropriate modern tools.  
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> A good anecdote I heard yesterday; a forest owner in Tararua district had a couple of keen local lads with their E category rifles shooting goats in plantations for the cost of bullets and a beer at the end of the day. Now their guns are locked up in the safe **the owner is faced with a $47,000 quote from a commercial pest control company.** Multiply this situation over the entire country…. we get the million deer, billion goat scheme. Otherwise known as billions of taxpayer dollars spent on expensive feed for feral pests.  
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