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permit and who have kept land adjacent to the Park in brush to reduce horn damage as well as grazing damage to orchards by planting diversionary food plots.
5) Recognize the Park policy of “letting nature take its course” — i.e. no hunting, no mercy on adjacent landowners who will be hurt by starving deer as land progresses from brush to a crown forest (which will support primarily turkeys and squirrels). Recognize also that such deer will be slowly dwarfed by starvation to the point where a six point buck will curl up in a wash tub. I’ve seen it in Pennsylvania and you can see it now in the Great Swamp area of New Jersey. Further, that the Park will control-burn only the Great Meadows area to maintain wildlife habitat.
6) Petition the Park or higher authority for relief like limited hunting within a few hundred yards of the Park’s border or to create a 300-foot brush strip on their land along the borders.
7) You each received copies of my proposal to the Game Commission in March 1986 regarding hoodlum hunting. This covers item two of your advertised hearing.
Remember, too, that outside qualified, unprejudiced consultants are available and that deer, too, are God’s creatures and deserve your compassion.
WILLIAM J. KEIM Amissville
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