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.
"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)