Let Ma do it!

To the Editor:

Mother Nature is smarter than we are. She is obviously more powerful. And way beyond that, she’s also eternal. Human beings share few  — if any — of these characteristics.

If certain disgruntled Wisconsinites are genuinely fixated on the decline of the state’s deer population, why, the solution is before our very glazed-over eyes; Simply place a moratorium on deer slaughter for three years. Then, step back, and behold the beauty, size and amazing numbers of deer abounding. Let the wolves weed out the unfit; that’s Mother Nature’s way, after all.

About 11,000 years ago, people, then, gladly abandoned the hunter/gatherer lifeways — probably because they had killed all of the local game and starvation had few charms.

Cain, the hunter-killer, was not the man his farmer brother had become. Let’s stop being primitive. Hunting is not a sport. Rather, it is gruesome and unnecessary today. Time to grow up a bit. Try nature’s way. Let Ma do it!

Tell your friends you’ve matured. Doing it Ma’s way. Let Ma do it!

Dr. Marlan Beilke

Rhinelander