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.
"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)