Hi All,

I think this is important for the future of the bird life in our area.  The Park Service needs to have the ability to effectively control the Deer population that has eliminated nearly all the forest understory.  John Terborgh of the Smithsonian has documented the the local extinction of summer residents like Kentucky Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, and Yellow-throated Vireo in Rock Creek park.  Forest Fragmentation is part of the problem, but mainly Deer wipping out the forest understory vegetation creates a shaded desert!

The quickest, cheapest (consider NPS's tight budget!), and most effective approach is to have the deer population reduced with sharp shooters.  To make the plan more acceptable to animal rights people, the Park Service will lower the population with sharp shooters and then use birth control to keep the deer population low.

Please support option "C" or "D" that invove the shooting and a cobimination of shooting & birth control.

I love deer, and I'm a vegetarian for ethical reasons, but I can't stand by and watch us trade 100 individual deer from a huge local population FOR the local exinction of entire species.

LINK to give COMMENTS:    http://parkplanning.nps.gov/rocr