{"id":9251,"date":"2023-09-19T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:11","slug":"help-keep-us-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=9251","title":{"rendered":"Help Keep us Wild!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9252\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704-1024x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704-1024x413.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704-768x310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot-2023-09-19-091704.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Problems for animals<\/strong><br \/>\nThe food that people provide can be harmful to deer.Deer digestive systems are equipped to deal with small bits of low-quality food, especially during winter.<br \/>\nLarge amounts of highly nutritious food, such as alfalfa or pellets, can overwhelm their digestive system and lead to bloat and potentially death, especially in young animals.<br \/>\nFeeding elk or deer can stop them from migrating to where natural food is available. Most mule deer migrate to lower-elevation ranges during winter. Feeding over time may cause animals to lose their knowledge of migration routes to winter range.<\/p>\n<p>Damage to native vegetation near feeding areas can also be a problem. Trees and shrubs, especially aspen and willow, can become heavily damaged and take a long time to recover.<br \/>\nCrowding creates conditions that can lead to disease outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>Wild animals need to remain wild. It\u2019s understandable that people enjoy seeing them close to their homes, but when animals lose their wildness, they\u2019re likely to lose their innate fear of humans and become too comfortable around people and in towns. That behavior can also be passed on to the next generation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccall.id.us\/deer\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problems for animals The food that people provide can be harmful to deer.Deer digestive systems are equipped to deal with small bits of low-quality food, especially during winter. Large amounts of highly nutritious food, such as alfalfa or pellets, can overwhelm their digestive system and lead to bloat and potentially death, especially in young animals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9253,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}