A shocking image yesterday: a friend and I stopped to admire the beautiful deer (with young ones) standing in a neighbors shady, tree-lined, ivy-covered yard, when the homeowner suddenly came running out with small wooden clubs in each hand (bowling pin- and miniature baseball bat-sized) and began flinging said objects at the deer, trying to hit them, and continuing all the way around his house, picking up the wooden objects and throwing them as he went. Sadly, the hatred against wildlife is alive and well in Bloomington, in part, thanks to certain public officials and a local newspaper that have only fanned the flames through alarmist rhetoric about the dangers deer pose. Public education is so in order to help concerned residents learn how to peacefully co-exist with our wildlife neighbors. The wildlife are here to stay. Weve over-developed, weve created an imbalance. Abusing and harming is never the solution. There are humane options, and many of those ranting the loudest are those who can afford super-nice fencing and plantings that would discourage wildlife. We need Laura Simon to help us the way she helped the City of Austin, TX. I am sympathetic to concerned citizens, and would like to help with education, but abuse is never okay. Nature is not something separate from us; we, too, are Nature. It is humbling to think that we all share an interest in living, in bodily integrity, and in freedom from abuse, and we all share the same fate--mortality.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 16:14:46 +0000
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