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From: Michael Audette <[log in to unmask]>

Some one was just talking about all the deer in Michigan. Maybe I should
relocate. Deer in Texas are the size of dogs. If I owned land there and some
activist tried to stop me from hunting on my land, I'd shoot them too!

Just wanted to mention, Michael, that some animals that have been absent
from SW Michigan for at least 100 years have begun to return.  Time will
tell if we can all live together this time around.

There is a beautiful river in the suburbs of Grand Rapids by which several
of my friends live in very, very upscale homes - 5,000' plus.  These are not
remote cottages.  Yet, they've begun to share the woods and river with a
huge deer population, black bear and coyotes!  The deer and coyotes have
become a true problem at the local airport.  It's amazing and almost
humorous to me that the local newspaper has had to advise people not to go
up and touch the sleeping bears, as one 10 year old tried to do (his father
stopped him!).

Kath (in the wilds of W. Mich)