Why Everybody At The Iowa DNR Needs To Be Fired

From the Des Moines Register ("Cities take aim at nuisance deer"):

"Almost every state is addressing this. I can't think of one that doesn't have some sort of urban management system," said Willie Suchy, who specializes in deer control for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "It's important because without some sort of control, deer populations will grow, and they'll grow quickly."

...Based on Suchy's estimates, the number of deer in Polk County would be almost four times larger without the controlled hunts, which Suchy said are likely to continue indefinitely to maintain a safe population level.

"At some level, deer are just fine. At a higher level, deer are kind of a problem. And at an even higher level, deer are intolerable," he said.

Suchy said deer begin to affect vegetation when they reach a concentration of about 15 to 20 per square mile. In urban areas, where more emphasis is placed on deer-human interaction than ecological effects, Suchy said a concentration of up to 35 deer per square mile is a comfortable goal for population control.

This is why Willie Suchy and everybody else at the Iowa DNR needs to be fired.

These government idiots want the urban deer population at levels 133% above what the DNR considers a problem with household gardens. Talk about mismanagement!

Iowa's deer population needs to be brought down least 90%, to pre-1980 levels. Back in 1980, Iowa had around 55,000 deer. Today, it has somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000 of the over-sized rats wandering around the state.

And don't forget what Jeffrey Vonk, the head of the Iowa DNR (and a Tom Vilsack appointee) said about deer:

"When you shoot them, they are our deer, but when you hit them with your car, they are your deer," Vonk said with a nervous chuckle at a meeting.

Ha ha ha, isn't that funny? What a dickhead.


Update: Then there's this letter by brown-nosing asshole Kent Chapman of Indianola:

John Carlson's Dec. 3 column lambasting the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for Kevin Kelly's deer problem was very one-sided ("Deer Shootings Lead To Day in Court"). The DNR is doing a tremendous job at keeping the population in check. I saw less doe in the field this year.

It seems as if Kelly didn't give many other options a chance and began to simply blast away. He complained about the depredation license and didn't try it. If he has enough money for lawyers and legal fees on his mission to discredit the DNR, then he has enough to buy some deer fencing.

Does Kelly let hunters onto his property? If not, then he's like many other areas in Iowa that become deer havens. He can give me a call any time. I can help him with his problem and get some choice meat for the freezer. Sounds like he shoots first and asks questions later.

- Kent Chapman, Indianola.

Nice sucker punch, ass wipe.

Iowa DNR head Jeff Vonk is from Indianola. What do you want to bet that Kent Chapman knows Jeff Vonk?