Deer hunts expand in suburban Morris County
Joe Cecala admires the grace and beauty of white-tail deer. He thinks they are remarkable creatures.
“I love to watch them, so do my wife and kids,” said the Morris Plains councilman.
But that admiration only goes so far. What he contends is an overpopulation of the four-legged animals in his small town led him to organize an annual hunt, an officially sanctioned move in which local residents and police trim the deer herd.
In the past winter hunting season, 53 deer were killed by bow hunters in Morris Plains, one of many central and southern Morris County towns holding hunts or opening their property to hunters.
Seven of the county’s 39 towns, plus the Morris County Park Commission, held government-run or endorsed hunts, netting more than 800 white-tail deer last winter, as hunters culled what officials say are too many deer in their woods and neighborhoods.
They were the types of hunts that used to draw protesters but which now have become part of an institutional role of government, like road paving and street sweeping. And the hunts are likely to indefinitely remain part of the bureaucratic landscape, officials said.
“There are just too many deer,” said John Mallon, chairman of the Mendham Township Wildlife Management Committee. “They are defoliating the forest, we are losing habitat for native birds and animals, and there are too many deer-car crashes.”
Hanover, Harding, Mendham Township, Morris Plains, Morris Township, Mountain Lakes and Randolph all participate in hunting efforts. The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham, Long Hill and Harding also has its own hunt.
The county park commission has been a leader this issue for a decade, allowing hunters onto its 18,000 acres in about a dozen Morris County towns in an effort to stop the ravaging of its forests. Long-time commission naturalist Rob Jennings, who took a job with the National Park Service last year, repeatedly warned young plants and trees that should form the next generation of forest were being eaten by deer.
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http://www.xach.com/lisp/nh.txt is the transcript. Decide for yourself.
Well, that’s IRC. Just avoid it.
Yes I do. I may be an anti-social dork, but most Lispers aren’t.
In a technical forum, the quality of answers doesn’t depend on how much you are liked or disliked by the participants.
IME, they are.
It’s like yin and yang: first-class functions must be balanced by first-class dysfunction.
+1
Everyone I showed your blog post to agreed that it was right on the money, which is why I posted it here.Please write more articles like that! ;-)If you’re genuinely interested in getting on with the Lisp community then my advice is to swallow all of the misinformation they repeat and not point out the fallacies. In particular, they hate language comparisons with anything except Java.If you think you might have upset a Lisper because they stopped responding to your posts, don’t worry, they probably just died of old age: most of them were around in the 50s.And yes, Scheme is better.
Aye. I have to agree that the folks on #haskell are really nice and helpful.
Bullshit. If he wants community, it is easy to find. Just subscribe to the mailing lists of the libraries or frameworks you use.Try hunchentoot (web server), ucw (web framework). Very active mailing lists.Lisp community is much smaller though than python, ruby.
People need to distill out what they want out of a programming language and how they’ll go about getting what they want.The “lisp community” contains some extremely rude sarcastic impatient people (although a lot of it comes from being jaded by all the trolling). That said, these same people are ludicrously well versed in computer languages - whether it’s luck or natural selection through the high barrier to entry, you don’t have this density of knowledge in other language communities.I do not suggest picking a computer language with the goal of making friends. You can get friends somewhere else.Also, when asking a question, do so with the goal of getting in and getting your information. For example, consider this response to your question on IRC:AholeLispExpert: Mapcar takes multiple lists as inputs. And your mother is a #$%@!.It’s usually very easy to distinguish the actual technical response from the other stuff.
I suddenly have the urge to idle in #ada.
No, the Lisp community are cranky because their faith-based stance on programming languages cannot withstand the deluge of informed, true and relevant arguments pitted against Lisp.