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This is a meaningless, wasteful, sad elimination of one of God's most magnificent creatures.  Nobody benefits from this.  Nobody gets the meat, a car is damaged, people get hurt and while we wait for someone to clean up the remains, death litters the highway.

"I don't want people to hunt deer because I like to watch them run..."

"Deer are such beautiful animals.  Why would anyone want to shoot them?"

TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.

Look, I know that no matter how many deer we harvest in a year, this scene will never end.  But if we get more hunters in the field benefiting from the lean, delicious meat that deer provide, there will be fewer rotting carcasses on the side of the road.

I always feel sad when I kill a deer, whether its with a bow or a gun.  I have ended the life of a glorious beast.  I wouldn't be human if I didn't feel some sorrow at taking this life.  It's a sign of respect for the animal to feel mourning.

But I feel more sorrowful when I see scenes like this along the roadside.

Landowners, I respect your love of "watching the deer run".  I love it too.  Sometimes I go to the woods with my camera and my video camera just so I can witness the wildlife.  I love to take my kids to the woods with me so they can learn an appreciation for God's miraculous work.

But banning hunters from your land is not a sign of respect to those deer herds.  The herds will continue to grow until the habitat cannot sustain them.  An increasing number of deer on your land will amount to a higher number of car/deer accidents, and the sick waste of the precious resource that is a deer.

Harvesting deer does not mean the elimination of the herd from your land.  It means the responsible tending to the deer you - we - enjoy watching.  The herd will remain, it will propagate and it will be healthy.