WHEN THE Department of Natural Resources is involved, very often its solution is to kill the animals. The Sun's Nov. 16 editorial has now taken a typical DNR approach, advocating ill-conceived and cruel managed deer hunts.
DNR's deer-killing philosophy is both ineffective and inhumane. It fails to recognize that deer exercise a population control of their own. If the deer population increases in a given area, does have fewer and fewer fawns and more males than females. This is nature's efficient way of handling the situation.
While a managed hunt will temporarily reduce the deer population, the remaining does will produce an abnormally large number of fawns the following spring. This will then bring about a cry from DNR for another managed deer hunt to decrease the population again and the killing cycle goes on and on.
