Deer Management Update (August 25, 2015)White Buffalo Inc, the wildlife management firm hired to screen, train and manage archers who will conduct a bow hunt this fall, has concluded recruiting hunters. The archers, who will hunt up to 12 hours a week, were required to show experience through harvest verification and will need to have a Bow Hunter Education Certification before they can begin. Applicants who made an inquiry to White Buffalo by July 28 will be sent an application.
White Buffalo Inc. has enough properties [public or private?] in the pipeline to proceed with the hunt. At this point they are only considering properties with a minimum of one acre, or properties that are near ravines, power lines, or other areas with at least 1/2 acre of woods or heavy vegetation. Informational meetings were held in the commission chamber of the municipal building Saturday, August 15, at 10 a.m. and Monday, August 17, at 7 p.m. View the presentation here. Residents also may contact White Buffalo directly by emailingmtlebodeer@whitebuffaloinc.org (please add to your address book to avoid responses going to spam) or applying online at http://www.whitebuffaloinc.org/#!contact/c1z0x. Please type "Mt. Lebanon Archery Program" in the subject line of the online form and complete the rest of the information requested. Properties in dense residential areas with few trees will not be suitable for the program. Please do not contact Mt. Lebanon Municipality directly.
White Buffalo representatives plan to attend the September 8 commission discussion meeting at 6:30 to describe the final program, including the backgrounds of the manager and hunters, the number of public and private properties to be used and the safety procedures that will be required. Click here to review the contract detailing the June 30, 2015 deer management proposal.
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I think MTL is in some real trouble... here's how I know ... Fake Lebo is deterioriating, after years of being funny. Read the last few posts... struggling for humor, and being called out on it. Why? Because this situation is not funny anymore.
ReplyDeleteRead the post today. It was actually not funny at all, and it was about the deer. Fake Lebo has given up. So might I.
What...no mention of safety zones on the Muni page ?
ReplyDeleteOMG, 7:37 AM! You're right!
ReplyDeleteJason, there is nothing funny in Mt. Lebanon anymore. All the laughing is coming from outside our borders. I heard about a nearby community who was considering a deer "management" plan but decided against it because they didn't want to be like Mt. Lebanon. The "Not in My Yard" signs on Robb Hollow are right across the street from where the deer corral was located in Robb Hollow in March.
The "ongoing deer incident report" shows an increase of dead deer in people's back yards. Are they all victims of car accidents? Now gun shots are showing up on the report. Shots fired? Guns were fired in Mt. Lebanon and it shows up on a deer incident report? How comforting. When guns are being fired in Mt. Lebanon, it is assumed that it is for killing deer. Three weeks on Saturday, Mt. Lebanon turns into Hunter Heaven.
Elaine
According to Jody Maddock, when people object to having archers in Mt. Lebanon, citing public safety, what they are really saying is that they love deer. Coming to you from the man who said when kids see dead deer, it is a teachable moment. OMG.
ReplyDeleteWe get to hear from this goon again at the September 8 commission discussion session, where he will tell us the number of public and private properties being used for killing deer.
Speaking of public properties, for the first time EVER, a bulldozer was seen clearing off an area in Twin Hills. Steve Feller claims it to get rid of "invasive species." Steve, is that the four legged kind? Twin Hills is located in Scott Township and the Scott commissioners have been alerted to the new activity occurring in their domain.
Elaine
remember all this agony, is brought to us by a few powerful women who dont want to lift a finger to cover their plants.... why should they?? they are used to getting what they want in life...
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the "deer incident report," I have a hard time understanding the thought process that makes a "FAWN IN BACK YARD" (such as 333 SLEEPY HOLLOW ROAD 07/07/2015), or any non-actionable deer event, qualify as an "incident" on a police blotter. Simply looking out the window, seeing a deer, and then calling the cops is a waste of police time and resources.
ReplyDeleteSince January, 2011, through 22 July 2015, there have have been 965 deer "incidents" reported to the police. Of those 965 "incidents" 188 of them involved cars hitting deer, and six of those 188 resulted in injuries. Nobody was killed. And of those six accidents there is no mention of whether alcohol played any role.
Here's another way of looking at the numbers in the "deer incident report": The number of days from 11 January 2011 to and including 22 July 2015 is 1,654 days. There were 188 car/deer collisions during that time; or one collision every eight days, 19 hours, and nine minutes. A collision resulting in an injury of ANY severity occurred once ever 275 days, 16 hours. Now remember, these figures are for occurrences, not for an individual's chance of having a deer related accident; to get that number one would have to know the average number of cars on the road (and the number of people in a car) PER DAY over that same period. If one takes the number of cars on the road into consideration then the chance of any one car being involved in a car/deer collision becomes even smaller!
The rather amusing thing about the "deer incident report" is that if one compares accidents to INCIDENTS (instead of time) then each time a "pro-cull" person calls in a "FAWN IN BACK YARD" or similar frivolous deer report to the police it bolsters the "anti-cull" side, since it would make the ratio of accidents to incidents a smaller fraction and make the culling look more like an effort to protect flowers than to reduce accidents.
I think the deer incident report and the cries for deer culls are a coordinated and systemic effort by municipal staff, elected officials and the media to divert attention from much more sobering issues facing Mt Lebanon. Perhaps those sobering issues need to be cast into the spotlight to combat the idiocy of more deer drama.
ReplyDeletesince the ultra-liberal "garden-ladies" like guns and shooting maybe they should sign up for NRA memberships..
ReplyDelete11:44 you have to understand.. those people dont worry about the sobering issues y facing Mt Lebanon.. they dont care, they dont have a mortgage on their house,, they have a stash of money,, their kids have moved and created their own lives.. they just want the wildlife GONE, every single one of them...
ReplyDelete11:44am -- curious: What would you say are the top 3 most sobering issues being hidden through this deer mess?
ReplyDelete11:44 here. I wish I could narrow down my thoughts with certainty as to the top 3. It would certainly be an interesting blog post if Elaine's readers would share their ideas too. Maybe there could be some consensus...I only know what I've been exposed to...and given the lack of transparency in the govt...
ReplyDeleteDrinking, drugs, and speed demons on the roads!
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