To ensure that encroaching development would not reach her 165-acre property in western Tennessee, Donna-Jean Walker, M.D., contacted us. Her mostly wooded property includes a pond with a small island and a waterfall, which attract a wide range of creatures. Great blue herons, wild turkeys, and hawks are evident during the daylight hours. At dusk one might see deer, and later in the evening, raccoons, opossums, and red foxes come out. The area’s continuing growth as a manufacturing and trucking center has spurred development, so Dr. Walker is relieved to have the land now permanently protected as habitat. She is comforted, as well, to have ensured protection for the animals against disturbance from those who kill wildlife for sport and those who thoughtlessly destroy habitat with four-wheel-drive vehicles.