Cindy, wolf killers love your reasoning for taking to the skies to
slaughter wolves and gas wolf pups in their dens.  The problem is who is
doing the complaining and whose opinion of what animal need killing just
because they exist--I resent tax payers killing what ranchers and farmers
call problem animals--they should tend to their flocks and crops instead
if using tax payer funded money to pay government officials kill wildlife
on public lands.  I would prefer eating deer flesh to toxic animal flesh
produced in toxic, inhumane ways.   I'm actually a vegan because of
factory farms.  Phyllis

Since the subject of hunting for food and/or sport has come up, I'd like
to point out that some of us support killing deer for ecological reasons.
  Deer overpopulation has been described as an "ongoing catastrophe" in
BIOSCIENCE because of what it is doing to natural areas across the
eastern U.S.  I don't hunt deer myself, but I am grateful to the hunters
who (ethically and legally) shoot does.  And many (if not most) Iowa
natural areas would be better off if more does were killed every year.   

The often-cited recommendation of thirty deer per square mile is based on
sociology, meaning the level at which significant numbers of people start
complaining about deer damage.  We should aim for much lower deer
densities if we want to protect native ecosystems.  Unfortunately, some
parts of Iowa have deer densities of more than fifty deer per square
mile.   We need to do better. 
ch

Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

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