As alway, Cindy, calm, deliberated points.

--Bill



> Unfortunately, there is a big gap between the relatively high deer density
> (about thirty per square mile) that most people start to find
> objectionable, and
> the much lower deer density (about ten per square mile) that causes
> significant damage to natural areas.  We should be managing deer numbers
> by using
> biological realities as the guidelines, not political pressure and hunting
> revenues.
>
> Unfortunately, that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon,
> especially
> since most Iowans seem content to seriously underfund the DNR.   And it
> doesn't
> help that even serious deer damage is invisible to many Iowans who use
> public
> land.
>
> Cindy
>
> Cindy Hildebrand
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> Ames, IA  50010
>
>
> "We passed a high Sand Bank which appeared to be Slideing in at times.
> Little
> above a Bank of Sand Stone which was high & many Birds nests in the holes.
> We proceded on to a large handsome prarie on the North Side where we
> camped." 
> (John Ordway, Lewis and Clark Expedition)      
>
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