Trap and Bolt anyone?

From the Municipality of Mt. Lebanon website:

FINAL SHARPSHOOTING REPORT 2019 Deer Management Program 


Tony DeNicola killed 44 deer this year for $59,605 or $1,354.66 per deer. Twenty-eight deer (64%) were "harvested" from private properties while 16 (36%) were "removed" from the four public properties available.

The original plan:

In 2014 in the interest of public safety, Mt. Lebanon’s elected officials set a goal of reducing the deer/vehicular crashes by 50 percent over five years. http://www.mtlebanon.org/DocumentCenter/View/15824/final-Deer-FAQ-January-2018?bidId=

Do the math, Folks.
Deer Pick-up/Vehicle Data

The spin this past year, according to Sharpshooting 2019 FAQ:  In the interest of public safety, Mt. Lebanon’s elected officials implemented a comprehensive deer management plan with the goal of reducing the number of deer/vehicular crashes.

They forgot to include "a goal of reducing the deer/vehicular crashes by 50 percent over five years."

We just completed season six and there is no end in sight. DeNicola now wants to kill deer in Williamsburg Park. He is suggesting trap and bolt but it sounds so much better when he calls it "non-traditional lethal management activities in very tightly developed areas (i.e., capture and euthanize)."

DeNicola is claiming four years, but we have actually had SIX killing seasons of high powered weapons in Mt. Lebanon. Don't forget Merlin the Magnificent who got in so much trouble when he used the trap and bolt method.

We're talking "scary deer." Not alligators, Commissioners.