Phyllis, I am very puzzled by your message.  I haven't seen ANY  reports in 
BIOSCIENCE or in any other conservation journals about wolf  overpopulation 
causing ecological problems, whereas I see regular reports about  
ecological problems caused by deer overpopulation.  Of course it would  be better if 
we still had large predators other than humans to help control the  deer 
population in more of the eastern U.S., but in many places we do  not.  
 
Are you really saying that my support for killing deer when they  are 
extirpating native plants and destroying habitat for many  other wildlife species 
is the same as supporting the killing  of wolves??  I really hope I 
misunderstand you.  
 

Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those 
 earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on 
ground. The  human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of 
cells. How  treelike we are, how human the tree." (Gretel  Ehrlich)

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