We were in Door County Oct. 17-18, the weekend of Fall Festival in Sister Bay. Thousands of people were also in the county for the festival, as well as seeing the fall colors at their peak time.

The same weekend, the Department of Natural Resources scheduled a gun-deer hunting season. This meant that there were also many deer hunters out in the woods, the same woods that fall color enthusiasts would have liked to be in but were afraid to be unless covered with blaze orange. Even then, they had to be anxious when deep in the woods with fear that they would be mistaken for a deer.

What was the DNR thinking when they scheduled a hunt right in the middle of the season for peak fall colors? Don't they realize the timing, or do they just think myopically about the hunt and controlling the deer herd whenever they see fit.

As a tourist destination, Door County officials should be very upset with the timing of that hunt and make efforts to see that doesn't happen again.

Fred Middleton

Baileys Harbor and Madison