More Deer Deaths In Iowa

From the Des Moines Register's Letters section:

In recent years our family has had many heart-stopping close calls, destroyed cars and now a death from deer strikes.

We recently buried our 33-year-old son, father of two young children, following an accident involving a deer. The problem is widespread and affects rural and urban areas alike. Insurance companies estimate that deer-caused accidents cause $1.1 billion in damage, kill 150 and injure 29,000 people every year.

If we had a group of individuals causing this much destruction, they would be classified as terrorists and hunted into the ground. At the very least, these animals should be identified as a menace to our safety and efforts made to control the population.

I've heard that Iowa turns away many hunters who could potentially bring dollars to the state and help eliminate some of this problem. I support maintaining a deer population, but we need to keep them off our roads and out of our communities.

- Tim Ricklefs, Gilmore City.

Iowans could start by demanding that every idiot at the Iowa DNR be fired and replaced by people who aren't fleecing the taxpayers with expensive and failed solutions like deer contraception.

Former DNR head Jeff Vonk wasn't retained by the Culver administration and left to bring his mismanagement skills to South Dakota. He was the insensitive Big Government asshole who once uttered: "When you shoot them, they are our [The State of Iowa's] deer, but when you hit them with your car, they are your deer". Vonk was one of the many idiots over the past 25 years who allowed the deer population to explode from around 55,000 head in 1980 to over 600,000.

That's not management, that's mismanagement.