To the Editor:
If the deer are dying off from some disease, that would be the best thing that could happen to them. It would stop the “vehicle vs. deer” crashes that have killed some motorists and cyclists, and stop that invasion of armed strangers and vehicles stopped on the traveled portion of the roads, turning around and speeding back and forth every hunting season, and stop their shooting into property without permission, which endangers humans, pets and livestock. The hunting community thinks the above are worthy sacrifices for their game of killing, wounding and causing misery.
I remember a time when we didn’t have a “high deer population,” and we didn’t have the above hazards and misery. Those deer herds are managed in such a way as to have plenty of live targets.
