Posted by Corey Graff, Online Editor

What do the words, "No Hunting Allowed" mean to you? If a "picture is worth a thousand words," then a no-hunting policy can be summed up  graphically by the photo below. Leaving the Deer & Deer Hunting offices on Friday, I couldn't help but notice this very young whitetail fawn lying dead alongside the highway. I stopped to shoot this photo. Indeed, it's not a pretty picture, but it did get me thinking about the reality of life and death that all deer hunters are intimitely familiar with.
 
Having friends who live in big cities like Chicago, I've met folks who rarely venture outside of city limits and have limited exposure (if any) to the countryside. Many have virtually no conception of the hunting lifestyle - let alone the idea of carrying capacity of habitat. There's no frame of reference for them to even begin to understand the "big picture" when they see roadkill. But the truth is, without hunters playing the vital role we do to balance deer herds every hunting season, scenes such as this (disturbing as they may be) would become even more rampant than they already are.