Say NO to the Neighborhood Bow Medina, OH
Information on controlling the deer population
Ohio Community Wildlife Cooperative (OSU)
The Ohio Community Wildlife Cooperative was created in 2011. It grew from a small contingency of central Ohio localities to a state-wide response. Every year, we hold a conference in November in order to meet the following objectives:
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Provide resources, knowledge, and assistance to Ohio communities managing wildlife and human-wildlife conflict.
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To create opportunities where communities can find support through networking with other communities and organizations, agencies, and other professionals that have wildlife management experience.
Hastings-on-Hudson Deer Immunocontraception Project
"The deer immunocontraception research project, a collaboration between The Humane Society of the United States, Tufts-Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, enters its seventh year in 2020. Beginning in 2014, the research team captured, ear-tagged, and administered PZP immunocontraceptive injections to 69 adult does in the Village, with the last captures carried out in winter 2017. These initial treatments were very successful: whereas more than 90% of Hastings does were producing fawns each year prior to PZP treatment, only 15% of PZP-treated females produced fawns in each of the two years after treatment. "
Save the deer! - Conservationists sue feds to stop L.I. kill
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"The plan to kill the deer did not sit well with the Animal Welfare Institute and Wildlife Preserves, environmental organizations that sued to block the slaughter in 2017."
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""Fire Island is the site of the longest running deer immunocontraception program in the country," said Schubert. "It started in 1993 and lasted through 2009. During the course of that work there were different areas of the park where they were able to reduce the population by 50%.""
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February 19, 2019 | New York Daily News (NY)
Author/Byline: Clayton Guse; NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Page: 20CS | Section: News
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Residents gather to support non-lethal deer population control methods
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"The Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer Management — an organization of residents who are concerned with the well-being of the deer population in the area — held a special event Sunday afternoon at the Creature Conservancy where attendees could learn of ways to protect the lives of the cervine wildlife from the culling and interact with live deer."
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"The non-lethal surgical sterilization method, a procedure in which the deer’s ovaries are removed, turned out to be quite successful as an addition to the 2017 deer management efforts: 54 deer were sterilized in a week, and all, with the exception of one deer who perished due to non-surgical related reasons, survived and returned to the wild."
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July 23, 2017 | Michigan Daily, The: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, (MI)
Section: news
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Humane alternative needed for urban deer population
"Analyses of Cincinnati Parks' own deer data, called "Deer Cheat Sheet," clearly show they have NOT reached their targeted deer reduction levels. Populations have actually increased. For years, Cincinnati Parks has been covering up incidents, and when incidents are reported, the answer is "we didn’t do it." The false claims by Cincinnati Parks must end, and city officials need to revoke the Chapter 708 Dangerous Weapons "exception" given to Cincinnati Parks and implement the Ohio Department of Natural Resources recommendations."
Cornell - Community Deer Advisor
Community-Based Deer Management (CBDM) is a guided process for addressing deer-related problems. It focuses on careful planning, targeted actions, and measuring progress. The process is flexible, helping communities adapt their deer management plan as needs change over time.
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Note: This includes white papers on a variety of different methods used to reduce population.
SHARK recorded the culling in the Summit County metro parks, which showed the inhumane treatment of the deer. White Buffalo destroyed the recording. It went to court, Metro Parks and White Buffalo lost in the appeal.
S.H.A.R.K.; STEPHEN HINDI, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. METRO PARKS SERVING SUMMIT COUNTY; DAVE RANKIN; JUSTIN SIMON; WHITE BUFFALO, INC.; ANTHONY DENICOLA; JOHN DOE, Defendants-Appellees.
State plans to allow bow hunting - BLUE HILLS RESERVATION
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"Hillside Street resident Jan Jepson recalled a man who had been illegally bow hunting in the Blue Hills approaching her neighbor. The hunter asked whether they had seen an injured deer, which had fled toward their properties after he struck it with an arrow."
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"Allen Rutberg, director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has spent years studying deer immunocontraception - or using the animal's own immune system to prevent pregnancy.
Rutberg said the treatment ranges from $200 to $1,000 per deer - far less than the controlled hunt. But he isn't sure that option would have an impact in an area as large as the Blue Hills.
Rutberg said using immunocontraception to control deer population makes the most sense in self-contained or suburban areas where hunting simply is not an option."
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July 11, 2016 | Enterprise, The (Brockton, MA)
Author/Byline: Jessica Trufant; The Patriot Ledger | Page: 1 | Section: News
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Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society (Canada)
We strive to achieve our goals by promoting science-based and humane population management of wild or feral animals in urban environments through research and education. We are guided by the principles of Compassionate Conservation and include animal welfare considerations in all our decision-making processes.
The Science and Conservation Center
One of the major efforts of the Science and Conservation Center at ZooMontana involves the humane control of wildlife populations by means of fertility control. To that end, the Science and Conservation Center was created in 1998, an independent non-profit organization that is the world’s only dedicated facility for the development of wildlife contraceptives and methods of application. This center produces and carries out quality control for a wildlife contraceptive vaccine, distributes the vaccine and is the repository for all records and data required by the Food and Drug Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.
Cornell - Community Based Deer Management
The citizen–agency partnership approach involves a co-management agreement formed between a state wildlife agency and a local land-management authority (e.g., a municipality, an airport, a county park commission) for the purpose of controlling a deer population in an area where traditional hunting is not considered a viable deer management tool.