Deer Overrunning Iowa

The Animal Uprising™ is well on the way toward its goal of overrunning the state of Iowa. The animals are intentionally targeting the traditional home of the first stage in the presidential nomination process in an attempt to subvert the American electoral process.

CENTERVILLE, Iowa — It’s difficult to imagine an Iowa landscape without whitetailed deer.

In 2004, the Iowa Department of Transportation said 8,000 drivers reported collisions with deer, causing an estimated 600 injuries to motorists.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources estimates that at least 12,000 deer are killed on Iowa roads each year, resulting in $13 million in vehicle damage. In 2003, 10 motorists were killed in Iowa as the result of vehicle/deer collisions.

But at one time deer were virtually extinct in the state. In 1898, the Iowa Legislature closed the state’s deer season year around to protect the few remaining deer left from years of almost unrestricted hunting.

Today’s state deer population came from the escape of animals from captive herds, deer migrating in from surrounding states and transplanting programs of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources .

In western Iowa, most of the deer population can be traced back to 1894 when 35 whitetails escaped from the captive herd of William Cuppy of Avoca.

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From 1993 to 2004, the deer population continues to grow. For 1993, the post-hunt deer population was estimated at 198,600. By 2004, that number had climbed to 360,000.

The growth rate is exponential. By 2008, the deer will handily outnumber actual humans in the state. The 2005 population of Iowa is listed as 2,966,334. The sad thing about it is that Iowa almost had them in 1898! It's all that Cuppy guy's fault! Just wait until all those politicians go to give a speech and all they see is whitetail deer as far as the eye can see. Oh hell. Now they'll be going for the Bambi vote….