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...oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves that he lets graze on his land. There's Ophelia, the gray Texas Longhorn his staff gave...
...Decoy Deer...
Steve Lopez's column on using mechanical deer to catch poachers and trespassers in Michigan would have been laughable if it did not reflect his antihunter bias [STEVE LOPEZ'S AMERICA, Nov. 13]. As a hunter, I have no sympathy for poachers. But I object to Lopez's silly and inaccurate description of events. How can he claim to be "deep, deep in the woods" when he's near enough to see a pickup-truck driver on the road? Perhaps Lopez has never been in woods deeper than Central Park. The real issue, however thinly veiled, is his distaste...
Parking, Permits... and Deer...
...Last year, driving up to Maine for Thanksgiving, I hit a deer," she writes in an e-mail message. "I totaled the hood--hit the deer on the front passenger side...