Bill Witt, thank you for saying it better than I could. I will add, while trying to be brief, that of course we could and should be doing a better job of managing deer in Iowa and in Iowa communities. And it would help if our deer-related actions and policies were based more on ecological knowledge and what's best for our landscape, and less on money, politics, and a mania for large bucks. Thank you to all the people who are working on local and state levels to move our state in that wiser direction. Cindy Hildebrand [log in to unmask] 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) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp