road because of heavy snows. There were some that were here with me 

 just before the story came out and what we did is draw the deer down 

 to the road and then they got run over by cars. It's okay to get run 

 over by the cars, but to starve to death, that's terrible. And 1 said 

 they were being fed by the Jackson Hole bleeding hearts. It's true, I 

 said it. Off the record. And I also said that people are doing no more 

 than signing the deer's death warrant. I said it. 



This one really got me in the you-know-what. I said this about 

 my own department. "GUILTY OF APPEASING THE PEOPLE." We are 

 guilty of appeasing the people by feeding elk and deer in the state of 

 Wyoming, because biologically, it's nonsense. But in case you haven't 

 figured it out yet, in this country there's very little wildlife 

 management going on. We manage people. When the people want 

 something, a lot of times we'll give it to them. Feeding deer in Jackson 

 Hole started out right after the turn of the century and it was started 

 by the Boone and Crocket Club and I don't have the exact dates. So 

 it started back when we didn't have much biological knowledge and it 

 continues today, when we know better. I also said that they were 

 lured off the winter range by the feed that people were putting out. 

 But you see, they added some other stuff in between there because he 

 wasn't a good enough reporter. He just got some good words, some 

 good puzzle words from me. Dying wildlife really isn't very funny and 

 when you say that it looks bad. And there's always a bystander that 

 get's the same credibility that you do. I guess there're bleeding hearts 

 every place, she remarked. 



I wonder how long ago it was that there was a town crier who ran 

 through the streets and said, "It's two o'clock and all is well," and he 

 kept going. .. "It's three o'clock and all is well"... and he kept going... 

 "It's four o'clock and I just passed the manor and Sir Richard is in bed 

 with Lady So-And-So and they're not married." That's probably the 

 way the press worked then. They didn't sue people for liable then. 

 They were more effective, they cut off their heads. I don't know how 

 long we can continue living with the, "it's rumored that," the 

 "according to's". You know all the phrases. 



I want to stop picking on the newspapers though for a little while 

 here. I will undoubtedly be on the AP wire about this and be in 

 trouble even before I get home, so I might have to stay in Montana. 



Now then, we have another astute group. They're called outdoor 

 writers, OWAA members. Well, we've got a lot of letters from outdoor 

 writers asking us for a lot of things. Okay. Here is an outdoor 

 writer, writing to us. I don't think he's an OWAA member. Can you 

 read it? "Could you please, please send me all of the information you 

 have on wildlife, conservation, ecology, etc. on the following subjects: 

 local martens, humming birds, hawks, etc. etc.... dogs, eagles, ducks 

 and beagles, cockerspaniels, etc., etc, bears: black, giant pandas." I 

 mean, in Wyoming we've got a lot of information on giant pandas. 

 We've got a whole library on giant pandas. We have that on horses 

 too, and ponys and other animals: badgers, beavers, elk, monkeys, 

 chimpanziees, bighorn sheep, wolverines, tazmanian devils. They go on 



