DNR?misses mark on deer

To the Journal editor:

The front page release after endless meetings and studies, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will solve our deer problems by protecting 4,000 does from bow hunters.

How earth shaking! From an acceptable herd of 350,000 deer a few years ago we’re down to about 100,000. That means a recovery goal of 250,000 at 4,000 a year? What’s that, 50-60 years?

Well that’s how aggressive those losers are, they gave us a solution that IS no solution. Our deer problems can be solved with one law, stop all baiting until we get our full herd back. Results? Lazy hunters would quit hunting and the deer-to-hunter ratio would correct itself.

The hunters left would become smart hunters and the deer would become wild animals again with a man’s scent a sign of danger and not feeding time. The DNR would lose tons of money with big layoffs which is good because they haven’t done anything right anyway. But don’t lay off janitors.

Do like Chrysler and GM and start chopping heads off at the top where the problems are. With their continuous solutions like the one above maybe it’s time to bring our issues to an old enemy the USHS, in the common goal of helping these animals. We just see it different. They want animals controlled only by nature. We want them managed for healthy populations in proper balance with other species.

But we’re both concerned about animals. With the joined forces of our numbers with the powerful legal staff and finances of the USHS the DNR with their arrogance would be crushed in the courts. Thousands of hunters would testify to the damage they’ve done.

The Wildlife Division needs to be removed from the DNR to become an independent department of the House, free to focus strictly on wildlife, not politics. The DNR is a lumbering giant interested only on what is financially good and publicly popular.

Why is it they give out endless grants and yet after billions of dollars from hunters and decades of destroying our deer yards now they want handouts from the public to fix the yards?

We’ll need to make sacrifices to get our deer back and a lot more work to get the DNR out of the woods replaced by good wildlife people. “Suck it up guys,” we either bite the bullet now or bite nothing because that’s all we’ve got now.

Bob Coryell

Munising

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