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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> Not killing the deer is the basest and vilest of insults to its
> existence. I live in a big forest and the place is thick with deer.
> This is, odd with the drought, a good mast year and so they are, as
> is their wont, multiplying profusely.   When a poor year comes they
> starve.  You find lots of them in the woods dead of famine and
> wasting disease.
>
> We coexist with deer and perform our function by eating
> them.


Right you are.  However, mast years mean I have to hike up to the ridge 
to hunt.  Other years, I can sit and wait for them to walk right up to 
the pasture.


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