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opposed to allowing hunting with bows.”
Bow hunters are essential to the public hunt, as they may kill does, most effectively hampering population growth. “People have an idea that guns kill cleanly, while arrows cause wounding and suffering,” Dr. Wemmer said.
He expects the Game Commission to present testimony on the lethality of bow-and-arrow hunting at the Congressional hearing.
Opposition Understood
Was the curator surprised at the degree of attention focused on his proposed hunt?
“Yes, I was,” he said. "But I do understand. We’re dealing with a creature that evokes great sympathy, that never directly threatens man s survival. People think we're trying to murder Bambi."
He has listened to alternative proposals that range from plausible to definitely impossible, such as transporting each deer to another area.
“But where?" he asks, “and how? This is simply not physically possible.”
Other suggestions have been a birth control pill for deer, mass castration and mass radiation, prompting one amused citizens to suggest in a letter to Dr. Wemmer that those in opposition be issued pliers and let loose on the Center’s grounds.
Local reaction to the issue has not been limited to amusement. In an area where deer hunting is a way of life. Dr. Wemmer has also to contend with irate hunters. He appeared Tuesday at Front Royal’s fire house to try to explain the whole controversy to a group gathered there.
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