I haven't read the article yet and I will. But until I do I'll just say this about Mr. Litchfield. I have met Mr. Litchfield on several occasions and I have personally heard him denounce the budget before biology thought process harbored in some offices of the DNR, at the risk of his job I might add, in front of his superiors. This man held his ground under a withering onslaught from his boss’s boss and stayed true to the biology of the deer herd over the budget of the DNR. He is a friend of the Iowa hunter and I trust his judgment.
Blake, I don’t know what conversations you have had with Mr. Litchfield, but I guaranfreakintee he is not Mr. Culver’s lap dog.
OK, I read the article. I am not worried about what Mr. Litchfield was quoted as saying. One MUST consider how the question was asked, how the answer was interpreted by the reporter, and how the reader interprets both. If you take Mr. Litchfield’s first couple of quotes about the deer herd nearing goals so the pressure to reduce the herd quickly has dissipated and the post rut quote, I’m not concerned about Mr. Litchfield in the least, now if you ask me about his boss’s boss, then that is a totally different matter.
The ‘Bonker