FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC ENVIRONMENT DEER, 1999-04-22 (photo)

FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-ENVIRONMENT-DEER - University of Wisconsin professor of botany Donald Waller points to an area of northern Wisconsin where he did research on the impact of an overpopulation of deer on plant life. Leopold, who made game management into a profession in the United States in the first half of the century, likened conservation to a machine. "If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.... To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering," Leopold wrote in his landmark "Sand County Almanac. BS/HB