> In spite of these deaths and those
> caused by hunters (licenced deer hunters just in Pennsylvania out-number all
> the solders under arms in N.AT.O. and the Warsaw Pact combined) deer
> populations continue to soar.
>
This population explosion is due to what's called "game
management" (manipulation) practices, and is not due to the
conspiracy of these evil creatures to take over the earth by
killing humans with their highway hara-kiri  And here's
why:  Not only are the state game lands manipulated to favor
game species (by selective felling which provides brush and
forage), but hunting seasons are timed such that the massive
die-off and stress force does into bearing two instead of
one (which would be normal in a healthy situation) fawn in
succeeding years.  Also, buck and doe season lengths are
corrolated to herd counts allowing for only so many of
either sex to be taken.  This keeps an overbalance of does
to bear more young to provide more "sportsmen" more
opportunities to spend more of their money on more of their
recreation providing us Pennsyvanians with more revenues!
Propaganda only is what turns these creatures into
murderous, crop-devouring, yard-destroying monsters.  So
truly, at the root, if anyone is dangerous, it's the
wildlife managers.

A Pennsylvanian whose neighbors and acquaintences are the
DCNR (Department of Conservation and Natural Resources) and
their biologists and ex-biologists, and who lives within
spitting distance of several state game lands,

Lois