Deer : the New Zealand story / David Yerex.

Includes bibliographical references (page 194) and index.

Introduction and establishment -- The fall from grace -- The government cullers -- The deerstalkers -- The Forest Service era -- Commercial hunting -- Deer farming -- Deer under DOC -- The wapiti saga -- The forest defenders -- Deer behaviour -- Other deer species -- Feed or forest? -- browse or bush? -- Bloodlines -- Game estates -- Venison processing -- Deer products: from velvet to tails -- Status report.

"Deer have been widespread throughout the country for over a hundred years, in the wild and in captivity ... Over that time, [they] have been a bountiful wild resource and export-dollar-earner, a serious pest of native forests, and a valuable farming animal ... the issues surrounding them are complex and no government has managed to reach an accommodation between the opposite poles of the debate. Nevertheless, they are part of our history, and their story needed to be told"--Foreword.

"An account of some of the policies and practices that have been adopted in New Zealand with regard to deer in the past century. It is an attempt to capture something of the conflicting attitudes to deer and the resulting treatment of them, to consider the stage we heve now reached and to ponder possible future prospects"--Preface.

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