When blacktail deer began destroying showcase vegetables at Ardenwood Park in Fremont, California, state Fish and Game Department officials determined the only reasonable alternative was to issue depredation permits so park officials could kill the marauding deer and salvage the meat for charity

However, some local citizens protested the plan, and applied enough pressure to force the park and state to relocate the animals

ID a roundup that eventually cost $100,000, twenty-seven deer were captured and relocated to the Ohlone Wilderness of Alameda County in December. Within two months, at least sixteen of the deer were dead, most of them killed by mountain lions. R.L.