I changed my view of it after tracking deer for a big plantation and then later going to track deer for the folks hunting the farmland next door where the farmer had a depredation permit. It just made it easy to see both sides of that coin…..How is some farmer supposed to make a living next to thousands of acres of land being maxed out for deer production?? If the folks around him are going to heavily populate the landscape with goats then he has to have a way to defend his crop against them or else he might as well not farm…..and that wouldn’t be good for any of us if we put our farmers out of business. On the flip side of that though, the guy that owns the big plantation has just as much right to manage his land how he wants to. The depredation permits just seem to be the best middle ground until someone invents something to effectively deter deer off of crops