PORTLAND - The message flies in the face of reason for some animal lovers: The best way to save deer that are starving in the winter is to deny them food that could save their lives. But that's exactly the message the Department...

Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer Portland Press Herald (Maine) 10-22-2006 Deer hunters find most success where more people live Byline: Deirdre Fleming Staff Writer Edition: FINAL Section: Outdoors Memo: WHITE-TAILED DEER MAINE IS HOME to one of the largest of the 30 recognized subspecies...

In his recent article: "Storm over the Arctic" [see excerpt above], Mr. Young imputes certain rather farfetched motives for my review of Farley Mowat's "People of the Deer"…. Actually my review was quite objective, and written solely from the point of view of a scientist whose work has brought him in close contact with the Arctic and with Arctic problems, but not necessarily with the actual responsibility of administration of the North…. I speak the language ...

["People of the Deer"] is a book about the inland Eskimos of the Barrens—the half-million square miles of plains, lakes, and low hills west of Hudson Bay. It is a record of two years the author spent among one tribe of these people—the Ihalmiut—in the late nineteen-forties, and in that sense is a travel book. But it is more, too, because Mr. Mowat is something of a fanatic about the tribe—or what is left of it after twenty years of slow starvation. His book is anoth...

A literary battle without modern parallel in Canada has been banging and crashing just below the horizon for the last few months. The fight is over the book called "People of the Deer" by Farley Mowat…. The antagonists are the author and a magazine called The Beaver, which is published by the Hudson's Bay Company. In its June issue The Beaver, among whose functions is that of professional debunker of all views of the North which do not conform to the Hudson's Bay Company&#...