ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Good job RSB. You are without a doubt a dedicated WCO,who does his very best to protect the wildlife and enforce the laws. But you should leave deer management to the professionals and stop contradicting what they are reporting.
Thanks Bluebird for the complement, even as off handed as it was.
A lot of people would disagree with you about my educating people on deer management issues too. In fact over the years I have received awards for my deer data and wildlife/habitat educational programs.
Those are all part of the normal duties and responsibilities of a Wildlife Conservation Officer. Some of us just develop and present it in different ways where we believe it does the most good. Most of our people will not come to the boards with the message though because they don’t have the patience to deal with the back and forth of the misguided naysayer’s.
I on the other hand, besides being very stubborn, have an uncommon amount of patience (though it too can be pretty short at time) will use you misguided naysayer’s as a method to get the correct information out to those readers with an open mind and enough commonsense to accept the real facts about the deer/habitat relationships.
R.S. Bodenhorn