I thought it was a great article. I tried to read it as an interested, unbiased New Yorker and found it informative. For anyone living in NY the issues of sprawl, overpopulation (of both deer and people), loss of public access, loss of farmland, tax dollars, inexpensive- effective solutions are real and everyday issues. I think the article touched on all these issues. It also put the disconnected Friends of Fluffy Faces in a ridiculous light (though my objectivity might have been slacking when I read their comments.)
The NYTimes is not a hunting magazine so when it tackles a hunting issue we'll pick it apart into a thousand pieces and find a hundred things wrong with it. For the audience towards which it was directed I think it was a great article, proposing a real solution in a positive light.
Al I know how you feel about your message being cut short and rearanged by the media, I've been there a couple of times. You can't tell people what to think, they need to do that for themselves but I think your words and the article as a whole opened the question for a great number of people in a positive light. Thank you.
Aram