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Prior to assuming his new position, Mr. Ishmael served Sauk County and northern Iowa County as DNR wildlife biologist based at Spring Green. Over the past four years, Mr. Ishmael as worked extensively in most areas of DNR's chronic wasting disease (CWD) management program.

[William Ishmael] is the Department of Natural Resources' wildlife ecologist in whose territory the black bear has chosen to live. Observations of black bears are not new to this part of southwestern Wisconsin, despite its proximity to densely populated areas. From information collected when the bear was trapped, it weighs about 250 pounds and is about 4 years old, Ishmael said. Biologists and others suspect the bear is not the only bruin which has taken up residence in northern Iowa County, Ishmael said. This, of course, is strong evidence that bears are establishing permanent habitat in southern Wisconsin. Their presence is evidence that conservation measures are restoring habitat, Ishmael said.

Last winter, the village trapped deer and moved them to state- owned lands in other counties, but the deer population in release areas is so large that the animals have become a nuisance, William Ishmael, an ecologist with DNR's Bureau of Wildlife Management wrote in a recent letter to Village Manager Joseph Szyper. Deer farms sell to zoos, game ranches or meat processors, Ishmael said in an interview. The state regulates more than 300 deer farms in Wisconsin. Ishmael said that transporting the deer could cost up to $200 per animal, but having trapped deer picked up by deer farms would be far less expensive, though he could not say precisely how much less. The state would receive all proceeds from the sale of deer, he said.

Because it is lengthy, the DNR will rely on an emergency provision passed in anticipation of the 1985 season, when winter storms were expected to limit the kill. According to the provision, the DNR must review the results of the first weekend's deer hunt. These figures show whether by the end of the regular season hunters will be able to kill the number of deer needed to control the herd's population. The number of hunter's choice permits is up about 15% statewide, with permits nearly doubling in some units. In units where there are few hunters and many deer, those applying for hunter's choice permits could be issued two more tags to kill antlerless deer, [William Ishmael] said. These conveniences to hunters are to encourage a deer kill approaching 400,000 animals during the general season, Ishmael said. Last year hunters killed a record 310,000 deer, and that wasn't enough.

The city's Public Welfare Committee recommended shooting deer as a way of reducing the deer population. More than 30 deer have been killed in automobile accidents since June 1 in Mequon. Problems with urban deer are becoming so widespread across Wisconsin that establishing an urban deer policy is a top priority in [William Ishmael]'s new position as top ecologist for DNR deer management. \"We feel that what we are doing is a more humane approach to the urban deer problem than trapping is,\" one marksman said. \"Believe me, anybody who ever had to be around trapping and see how deer can mutilate themselves would change his mind about it being a humane method for saving deer.\"

W E'VE GOT DEER like your back yard has dandelions in summer. We've got more deer than you've got debts. We've got deer like toads have warts. Pick out a bush and you are likely to find a deer sleeping under it. All of which brings us to Mequon, which ain't Mercer or Minong or Mellen or even Manitowoc. But Mequon, we are told, has too many deer and wants to do something about it. O NE OF THE more respected game managers in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, William Ishmael, told the folks in River Hills that if they wanted to solve their deer problem they should institute a program of controlled kill. It would take care of the problem.

PHOTO by DAN DeLONG, The Morning Call CAPTION: There was smoke; fire, too A short in an electrical receptacle ignited a fire yesterday at the Main Street Depot restaurant in Bethlehem. The smoky fire caused about $40,000 in damage, fire officials said. Most of the food in the kitchen was condemned. The restaurant is expected to be closed for a few days for cleanup. (Appeared on page B03, SECOND EDITION.)

Since Friday, firefighters have responded to two structure fires, three automobile fires and two trash bin fires around 4th and Hayes streets. And, according to Assistant Chief Ishmael Williams, they were all set.

Two Bethlehem families were left homeless yesterday after separate fires on the city's north and west sides damaged their homes. One of the fires is being called suspicious by Bethlehem fire officials. Bethlehem Asst. Fire Chief Ishmael Williams said the fire destroyed the kitchen and dining room and caused extensive damage to part of the living room. The second and third floors of the house also received heavy smoke damage, Williams said. Upon learning that her house had burned, Mrs. [Kay Doyle] collapsed. Both she and her son were taken by ambulance to St. Luke's Hospital where they weretreated for situational anxiety and released. The Red Cross found lodging for the Doyles last night at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in Bethlehem.

Bethlehem fire fighters reported that when they arrived at the home of Barry Achey, 504 W. Union Blvd., they found heavy smoke coming out of the eaves of the 2 1/2 -story structure and flames coming from the rear of the house. [Ishmael Williams] said the home next door, at 502 W. Union Blvd., owned by Paul Calvert, suffered extensive smoke damage on the third floor and lesser amounts on the second and first floor. Damage to the Calvert home was estimated at $20,000.